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WangGuard

The most advanced protection against sploggers and spam users registration, is fully WordPress,WordPress MU ,BuddyPress and bbPress 2.0 compatible

1.4.5 - 19 Apr 2012

  • This is a recommended update
  • Fix a bug in WangGuard wizard (Typo error). Thank to Paul Newsome of http://www.nufcblog.org for report it.
  • Now Security questions work with AppThemes Child Themes

1.4.4 - 13 Apr 2012

  • Fix an issue with all AppThemes, now the WangGuard Security Question are well formatted.
  • Minor tweaks to CSS

1.4.3 - 23 Mar 2012

  • "Report blog" option is now shown on multisite installations.
  • Solved a "Notice: Undefined index" error that may appear on the server's error log

1.4.2 - 20 Mar 2012

  • Critical fix to workaround an IE compatibility issues to avoid legitimate users to be identified as Sploggers on registration screen.

1.4.1 - 13 Mar 2012

  • jQuery library is not longer enqueued by the plugin except when BuddyPress is installed and "Show the report user button" is selected.
  • BuddyPress options on WangGuard Settings page are no longer displayed when BuddyPress is not installed.

1.4 - 6 Mar 2012

  • Added Advanced User Management.
  • Fix minor issue where WangGuard CSS load on frontend.
  • Revamped wizard. Now ask you for the advanced User Management.

1.3.2 - 11 Feb 2012

  • CRITICAL UPDATE, fixes to the code due to a bug on the dbDelta() WordPress function, only affects to WordPress installations which uses capital letters in the database prefix.

1.3.1 - 10 Feb 2012

  • Minor tweaks to improve Splogger identification and reporting accurancy

1.3 - 30 Jan 2012

  • NEW Added the ability to block users which e-mail addresses belongs to well known domains, the domain's list is maintained by WangGuard. Go to WangGuard Configuration -> Blocked domains to select which domains you'd like to block.

1.2.6 - 23 Jan 2012

  • Fix minor HTML/CSS issue on BuddyPress registration screen.

1.2.5 - 18 Jan 2012

  • Fix minor HTML issue.
  • Fix an issue where some users could give false positives.

1.2.4 - 12 Jan 2012

  • Fix minor compatibility issue with BuddyPress 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 on register page.
  • When running on jQuery 1.7.1 (WordPress 3.3+), the plugin doesn't uses the deprecated live() functions, instead it uses the new on() function to hook certain events.
  • Revamped plugin configuration look and feel.

1.2.3.2 - 5 Jan 2012

  • Fix minor compatibility issue with W3C Total Cache when the HTML output was minified.

1.2.3.1 - 13 Dec 2011

  • Fix issue in users screen. When WangGuard is installed with s2member plugin, the columns added by the s2member plugin didn't display the value for each.

1.2.3 - 9 Dec 2011

  • Minor tweak to the statistics

1.2.2 - 8 Dec 2011

  • Compatibility with WordPress 3.3.
  • Changelog outline displayed in the plugins page when there's an available update for WangGuard.
  • Fix in wangguard-admin.php prompted by boonebgorges Thank you.
  • Updated statistics charting components, now are correclty viewed on iPad, iPhone and iPod.

1.2.1 - 19 Sep 2011

  • New gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications. As gmail.com and googlemail.com ignore dots on the left side of the @ in an email address, Sploggers uses email variations to create multiple accounts using only one gmail.com account. Also, googlemail.com is an alias of gmail.com. WangGuard now checks for existing accounts having in count these rules in order to prevent fake accounts to be created. You can turn off this feature from the Configuration page.
  • New optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address). New account's email domains are checked against your server's DNS for an associated MX record, if the resolution fails, a message is displayed to the user and the sign up process is stopped.

1.2.0.2 - 14 Sep 2011

  • Adding 2 missing folders, Sorry.

1.2.0.1 - 14 Sep 2011

  • NEW Added Italian Language, Thanks to Arturo.
  • Minor bug fixing.

1.2.0 - 07 Sep 2011

  • Added the ability to flag a user as "Not Splogger", overriding WangGuard response or cancelling a false/accidental report sent from your site.
  • Reported users does not get deleted by default, this is a change of behavior from the previous version, if you want WangGuard to delete reported users, as on previous versions, go to Configuration and check the option "Delete users when reporting them to WangGuard".
  • Added a new Statistics page which shows the last 30 days activity and a side by side comparison of the last 6 months activity (queries made to WangGuard / Sploggers blocked / Sploggers reported by you).
  • Added a new dashboard box which shows the last 7 days activity.
  • BuddyPress only, when clicking on "Load more" in the latest activity screen, report buttons now works as expected.
  • BuddyPress only, you can now report users from the view post comments screen.
  • Minor tweaks and bug fixing.

1.1.6 - 15 Aug 2011

  • Fixed minor issues involving the URL for some links to the Configuration screen.

1.1.5 - 29 Jul 2011

  • Fixed issue involving WangGuard questions on signup for WordPress 3.2.1 and its new 2 step registration when creating a blog on the registration screen.

1.1.4 - 23 Jun 2011

  • Fixed compatibility issue for WordPress 3.2+.

1.1.3 - 18 May 2011

  • Wizard now verifies, report and delete users in small groups in order to avoid timeouts.

1.1.2 - 12 May 2011

  • Minor tweak on code.

1.1.1 - 11 May 2011

  • Minor tweak on code.

1.1.0 - 10 May 2011

  • NEW Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers
  • NEW Mark as Splogger from post list
  • NEW Add "Report blog and author" on every blog
  • NEW Moderation Queue for repored users and blogs
  • NEW Add report user on every Activity
  • NEW Add report user on every profile

1.0.4 - 28 Mar 2011

  • Minor tweaks to readme file.

1.0.3 - 23 Mar 2011

  • Fixed a bug on the BuddyPress registration process which generated a log entry in apache's error log (duplicated entry on DB insert on table {DB_prefix}_wangguarduserstatus).

1.0.2 - 18 Mar 2011

  • Disabling the main blog when reporting a user fixed, reported user's blogs gets flagged as spam now.
  • Fixed a "Parser error" on servers which doesn't have "short_open_tag" enabled.

1.0.1 - 2 Mar 2011

  • When reporting a user, user's blogs doesn't get flagged as spam because there is a risk of disabling the main blog. Working on a patch for the next release.

1.0.0 - 1 Mar 2011

  • Initial Release

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-5-2
Downloads: 34,658

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