I have currently over 22000 user on by blog where probably 90% is spam users. I’m gonna remove all users without any blog comments or forum posts.

I’ve started to use Sabre Captcha plugin for user registrations and it’s working like a charm.

Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine By Didier Lorphelin.

If I by mistake remove any correct user I do apologize in advance and urge you to re-register, sorry for the inconvenience.

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After many hours of debugging i have decided to completely re-write WP Forum from scratch. And as I go along I’m adding some new features such as User Groups. User Groups can be used to restrict and/or permit certain users to access forums. This is something I have gotten a lot of requests about. Better support for different character sets. Especially the spanish and russian one. Better support for language packs.

And for programmers out there, I’m doing this completely object oriented. This have several benefits:

• Less bloated code
• Maintenance is much easier
• Re-use of code

As a user you can rely upon a much more stable product. This next version will be 2.0 and I’m almost done with the admin interface. It’s gonna take a while but it’s well worth the effort. I have started to use WordPress SVN repository which makes updates a breeze with WordPress’ built in installer.

I’ve come a cross several bugs in WP Forum lately, mostly it’s from incompability with WordPress. I haven’t been updating my plugins for a while and therefor i have to fix these things. Lots of Captcha bugs fixed and some user handling added and fixed. Version 1.7.8 is available both from WordPress plugin page and from my own plugin page.

I’ve come a cross several bugs in WP Forum lately, mostly it’s from incompability with WordPress. I haven’t been updating my plugins for a while and there fore i have to fix these things. Lots of Captcha bugs fixed and some user handling added and fixed. Version 1.7.8 is available both from WordPress plugin page and from my own plugin page.

Bug hunting is not what i like to do on my free time but what don’t one do for the WordPress community. And as the famous programmer Brian Kernighan said:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? (Brian Kernighan)

Clever dude.

I’m currently upgrading WP Forum to include password protected groups and fine tuning the Captcha function. A beta version ca be downloaded at the plugin page.

Please feel free to test this new beta version and give me feedback on bugs and problems that might occur. Downloads is made from the WordPress subversion directory from now on. Makes it easier with the version tagging and lessen my confusion.