A changelog by Daniel Mettler

I’ve now enabled a basic captcha system provided by a Movabletype plugin called SCode. In order to make it work I had to do a couple of things that are not mentioned in the official installation instructions:

1. make the mt-scode.cgi CGI script executable:

# chmod a+x mt-scode.cgi

2. make sure that SCode is enabled and configured both on a MT global level and on a per-weblog basis
3. Correct a bug in SCode.pl:

replace security code you see here\” src=\”$path/plugins/SCode/mt-scode.cgi by security code you see here\” src=\”$path”.”plugins/SCode/mt-scode.cgi

#3 is not essential, but a bug nonetheless.

Hopefully, the comment spam problem is now solved for a while by enabling this plugin. Trackback spamming is still possible, though.

Please contact me if you are visually impaired and would like to post a comment on this blog. Ideally, the captcha image should also be available as a sound file/stream, but I haven’t found the time yet to implement sth like this.

I finally upgraded MT 3.1.x to MT 3.2. The upgrade process was much easier than expected. The only error I encountered was sth like:

main([path to install]/mt/php/extlib/smarty/libs/core/core.load_plugins.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

which could be solved by simply rebuilding the whole site, as explained in

“failed To Open Stram” When Clicking On Comments” href=”http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t53967.html”>Movable Type Community Forum > “failed To Open Stram” When Clicking On Comments

The new features of MT 3.2 are very welcome of course.

There’s no more standalone_style.css in the most recent version of Gallery v1, as the names of the CSS stylesheets were changed, unnecessarily breaking existing systems in productive use. A good example of bad release engineering (note that Gallery v1 is supposed to be a stable version).