Comments on: WP-Gatekeeper

By: How to avoid spam? | paul olyslager

How to avoid spam? | paul olyslager — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:17 +0000

[...] questions into the form, which needs to be answered by the visitor. Eric Meyer wrote an article at WP-gatekeeper about this. He suggested to ask simple questions, eg. “what is Eric’s first [...]

By: DigitalMan

DigitalMan — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:33:06 +0000

A colleague of mine just had an idea. What about using an image button for the submit button which would pass in the x/y coordinates? If the way spammers are exploiting this is by posting to the form from elsewhere it seems that even checking the referring url might work.

By: Defeating contact form spam by hiding the webmail script | Ardamis.com

Defeating contact form spam by hiding the webmail script | Ardamis.com — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:59:21 +0000

[...] correctly answered before the form could be submitted. Eric Meyer wrote a very inspiring piece at WP-Gatekeeper on the use of easily human-comprehensible challenge questions like “What is Eric’s [...]

By: Wordpress Comment Plugins: Building A Fortress To Defend Against Spam! at MUSicTECHnology.net

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:45:32 +0000

[...] there are a couple of other great plugins that are similar like Meyerweb’s WP-Gatekeeper , Did You PASS Math?, ΛορδΧηαος’s Challenge Plugin and Captcha!, I am a [...]

By: asss@assss.sss

asss@assss.sss — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:22:27 +0000

Hey… Just testing the plugin works!

By: Spam Blocker Michael

Spam Blocker Michael — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:43:08 +0000

>No image CAPTCHAs. Too many accessibility problems, and too easy to >defeat.

Hmmm…I am wondering how far a spammer would go especially when he/she has to crack a image security code.

They might hire some cheap chinese worker to send their spam by entering each time the image security code.

By: Web Communication Link Relationships - Lachy’s Log

Web Communication Link Relationships - Lachy’s Log — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:51:59 +0000

[...] es, on the condition that it is removed after moderation.
Of course, there are much better
ways to block spam that sho [...]

By: yo

yo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:26:59 +0000

yo, test.

By: What makes you happy ? » Gatekeeper in.

What makes you happy ? » Gatekeeper in. — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:20:20 +0000

[...] ich I have always quite liked when using it on other’s blogs – is Eric Meyer’s Gatekeeper. I pose a range of quetions, you answer them. So it is now installed and r [...]

By: TRAE

TRAE — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:04:25 +0000

great plugin man. and it’s better than CAPTCHA cos it’s blind-people friendly. But you guys should include this in the instructions:

“after installing you have to log out of your wordpress control panel if you want to test it, because by default the challenge is not posed for the administrator (you)”.

i wonder why you should create this plugin and not use it on your own site (this blog). that’s kind off ironic don’t you think. well great plugin all the same. peace!

By: Kingyo Senbei

Kingyo Senbei — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:14:12 +0000

Blog Spam

Having had serious spam when using MoveableType and after transferring to WordPress I decided I needed to take drastic action.
I was on the uni server when I used MT, but it didn’t have the PHP graphics module so the Captcha didn’t work. I …

By: jaya

jaya — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:44:59 +0000

I have dowloaded from http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/wp-gatekeeper.html, but the version that I read is 1.5RC1. That site say that the version is 1.5RC2. I found http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-gatekeeper/. So, what version (the latest) should I monitoring? from this site or from dev.wp-plugins.org? I like this script very much, there is no accessibility problem.

By: Scott Sauyet

Scott Sauyet — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:22:33 +0000

Oops, typos in my previous:

http://tinyurl.com/4hcw2#comment-340

Then the table would need to hold only the questions and their answers

Sorry,

— Scott

By: Scott Sauyet

Scott Sauyet — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:19:59 +0000

Amazing how so many people hit on similar solutions. After someone last week pointed me (http://tinyurl.com/4hcw2#comment-340) to http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/index.php?p=103, I started designing an almost identical solution. I happened to stumble across this one today. I really like the simple interface. I haven’t gotten it to work on my site since I’m on WP 1.5, but I’m sure I could get it in if I want.

I have one suggestion, though. Instead of keys stored in the database, why not send a hash of the correct answer, together with some static, but private string, in a hidden variable? Then the table would need to hold only the questions and there answers, and the verification wouldn’t need to take a DB hit.

$key= ' ';

And then you can do hash the returned answer and compare the results. Does this make sense?

By: Richard Peng

Richard Peng — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:39:00 +0000

I have a solution that might also have potential. It might work if you added radio buttons of which you had to click on the correct randomly selected button before posting. I’m not sure if spammers can fill out radio buttons as of yet. Combine that with another challenge and it might be complicated for spammers, but not for humans.