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Author: Wolfgang Timme

Looking for a guestbook that just fits my needs, I found myself lost in a WordPress plugin database full of plugins which just pretend to be a guestbook, like the guestbook builder does. But it is not more than just a page with a comment form. That wasn't what I was looking for, so I came up with developing my own plugin for WordPress. It works quite good actually, and I'm looking forward to integrate some other cool features, but for the moment you have:

• Notification by mail when a new entry has been posted.
• Moderation, so that you have to check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook (can be turned off).
• Recaptcha integration. (Fighting spam!)
• Akismet integration (Fighting spam, too!)
• Localisation (currently english, german and dutch). Own languages can be added very easily, check WP documentation on this. If you translated the plugin I'd be glad to include your language in a future release, so please send them to my via mail, thanks!
• different-styled admin entries, so that the visitor can tell which entry is written by the 'real admin'
• a log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released an article to the public and when.
• IP-address- and host-logging
• Easy uninstall routine for complete removal of all database changes.

... and all that integrated in the stylish WordPress 2.7 look.

For a demo, visit the plugin's homepage (http://www.wolfgangtimme.de/blog/). Feel free to drop me a message in the WordPress.org forums or send me an email to gwolle (at) wolfgangtimme (dot) de. You may also use my homepage's comment section. I'd be glad to hear your opinion and/or feature request.

Changelog

0.9.4.5 As this release alters your Gwolle-GB database tables I highly recommend to backup the old ones. If you're experiencing any errors please report them immediately. Thanks! [new] Option to toggle the visibility of line breaks [fix] All tables & fields are now UTF8 (-> support for Croation letters)

0.9.4.4a [new] After deleting an entry directly from the entries page you'll be redirected to that specific page (spam/unlocked/locked/all) [fix] reCAPTCHA library is not include if that's already been done by another plugin. [new] Dutch translation added. Thank you, timomaas! [fix] Now using wp_mail() instead of mail() to send email notifications. [fix] stripslashes on the user-defined admin mail text. [new] mass editing of entries added [new] Notification list shows ALL subscribers, including the current user.

0.9.4.3 [fix] Redirection failed again. [new] Added an option to set link to the guestbook manually.

0.9.4.2.1 [rem] Removed the version check because of some problems.

0.9.4.2 [fix] Redirection to reading page after posting entry sometimes failed. [new] Option to set the number of entries displayed in reading mode. [new] Option to set the mail notification text [new] When uninstalling via the plugin's setting panel you'll be asked to confirm again. [new] Notification mails now can include a direct link to the editor, speeding things up for you.