Contributed by: Dirk on Sunday, November 28 2004 @ 03:01 pm EST
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A quick recap of some of the new features: New default theme (HTML compliant, at last), SpamX plugin[*2] included, story archive option, editable story IDs, autolinks[*3] , and more[*4] .
We hope you'll like it.
For those upgrading from 1.3.10rc3, there were only two changes in system/lib-plugins.php and plugins/staticpages/functions.inc to allow omission of the link text for the built-in autotags (Geeklog will use the object's title automatically then). Also updated were the Chinese language files and some of the documentation.
Reminder: The old stock themes are available as a separate tarball[*5] now.
A word on the comment spam that has plagued quite a few Geeklog sites recently: With the inclusion of the SpamX plugin (thanks again to Tom Willet!), tracking of IP addresses of comment posters, and a form to report abusive comments, Geeklog now has quite a nice armory to effectively fight comment spam. And if the comment spammers catch up - which they invariably will - it's easy to fight back by writing new extensions for the SpamX plugin (which can simply be dropped in the SpamX plugin's directory, so you won't have to wait for a new Geeklog release).
Blaine is working[*6] on a SpamX-enabled version of the Forum plugin, which already catches forum spam reliably here on geeklog.net.