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Spammer Slammer Changelog

Last Updated On : 07-Feb-2021

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New FeatureEnhancementMaintenanceBug Fix
NEW ENH MNT FIX

History Of Changes

This change log is regularly updated. If more information about any log entry is available, then it will be linked from the change log entry version number.

VersionDateDescription
1.9.0 07-Feb-2021
  • Allow specification of domains as well as TLDs in the bad domains list
  • Updated for WordPress 5.6.x and PHP 7.4
1.8.1 11-Nov-2020
  • More nuanced handling of domain name matching in the text
1.8.0 15-Jun-2020
  • Record and display reasons why entry was identified as spam.
1.7.1 12-Jun-2020
  • Fix bug with passing options from new Gravity Forms class
1.7.0 12-Jun-2020
  • Check email field for a suspect domain
  • Separate Gravity Forms processing into a separate class from the generic contact form processing
1.6.0 07-Jun-2020
  • Check for hashtags in text and author fields on comment forms and contact forms
  • Remove author website field from comment form
  • Remove comment author URL when displaying replies from internal users to prevent internal backlink proliferation
1.5.3 31-May-2020
  • Standardise dashboard
1.5.2 22-May-2020
  • Fix issue with validation of some contact forms
1.5.1 20-May-2020
  • Correct case of user roles
1.5.0 18-May-2020
  • Suppress spam checks for logged in users
1.4.0 11-May-2020
  • Added internationalisation support
1.3.0 06-May-2020
  • Added stopwords check for submitter name
1.2.0 05-May-2020
  • Added check for double name on submitter
  • Allow checks to be chosen independently for comment and contact forms
1.1.1 22-Apr-2020
  • Fix to comment author checking
1.1.0 21-Apr-2020
  • Added checks for Hangul (Korean) Characters
1.0.0 19-Apr-2020
  • Prepare for publish to WordPress repository
0.5.1 11-Apr-2020
  • modifies the minimum content length feature to apply only to contact forms
  • adds tooltips on the settings page
0.5.0 07-Apr-2020
  • flag as spam if the submitter name contains 2 or more contiguous upper case characters
  • flag as spam the website provided by the submitter is located on suspect top level domains
  • flag as spam if the length of the comment is below a minimum threshold
0.4.1 10-Apr-2020
  • Option to send contact form to trash automatically
0.4.0 30-Mar-2020
  • Make checks on submitter name
0.3.0 24-Mar-2020
  • Identification of cyrillic and CJK characters
0.2.0 06-Jan-2020
  • Add handling of form spam in comment forms
0.1.0 17-Aug-2019
  • Detect spam on contact forms based on user specified stopword
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