WARNING: This will slap a copyright credit in your footer without so much as a say so. It also comes with big capitalised warnings about removing the credit in the code.
Include a credit by all means but slapping an uneditable line halfway across your footer on every page is a bit too far - Bang out of order. The WPMU Super Captcha doesn't appear on every page if your using it to secure the signup only.
Hint! - remove the credit from the footer and place it more discretely within the Captcha itself. Don't be so pompous as to screw up someones site and theme style.
To heck with the warning, I've remove it anyway and placed it on the bottom of my sign up page. WHERE IT BELONGS!!
[Plugin: WPMU Super CAPTCHA] Annoying credit byline (10 posts)
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kipperman
Posted 2 years ago # -
Mike W
Posted 2 years ago #Sorry man, it was meant to be for Multi-User installs - In such case it would be recommended to have that line at the bottom so someone configuring a spam bot would just skip your website's URL entirely.
About it not creating the confirmation all over the site (including replies) is because and again, it was designed for the MU edition, and addresses the largest problems with it, blog creation spam. That also means securing the login page as well and I was asked by several people to release it for WordPress Single Edition as well.
Again I strong emphasize that this plugin was originally designed for the MU edition, and comments like that strongly discourage me for further developing on the single user edition.
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Posted 2 years ago #I am using the MU edition. So wht does that make it OK?
I just think the line is very intrusive and the user can't (or don't) get any options as to how to integrate it into the site. No font colour/style possible - position - size. On my site the text was nearly unreadable and the blue links looked messy on my entirely different shade of blue footer. And how would you know if the footer is already jammed full of other stuff. where would this sit then; on top of it or just randomly create another line to smugly sit in.
If there is a need as you say to have it displayed on every page then this needs to thought about. It landed in my footer on the left with no margin and finished just past the centre of the page on my screen. How can you believe this will be "OK".
The plugin itself works fine and is good but I do certainly take issue with the credit invasion. I'd suggest that you consider an update which address this.
Until then the credit is staying out of my footer and will remain with the product. I've tried a number of plug ins (incliding capthcas without the imposing credit) - can you imagine how it would be if they all took that same harsh stance of dictating to you that they MUST have a footer credit.
Sorry man, good plugin - lousy credit line badly thought out!
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Posted 2 years ago #I am using the MU edition. So wht does that make it OK?
Did you pay any money for it? Do you realize that most of the MU plugins (those plugins designed to enhance the MU edition) out there are not FREE plugins?
Again the "Secured by" is mainly intended for the home-page, and only ads more security to the site. Many bots when farming for URLs to spam will skip right over sites with lines like that with recognized systems to prevent bot attacks. Kinda like having the "Secured by ADT" on your window, what thief is going to waste his time knowing hes going to get caught? Likewise what bot is going to spend 2% of its resources spaming a site it already knows will not be able to spam?
Just by posting a sticker in your house "Secured by..." This automatically adds a bit of security and deturant. Same is said for the "Secured by" in the footer, and besides it is a way of showing support and respect for a lot of hard work and a lot of hours for the very software you make use of at the expense of that hard work and time; after all I'm no Mother Terisia.
The copyright line is only wrapped in paragraph tags, and on purpose, and that is because in 99.99% of the wordpress themes out there, it shows up flawlessly and usually "flows" with the footers. I can show you several sites that this plugin is currently installed on in which it fits very nicely in the footer.
My own sites
http://www.mlwassociates.com
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Posted 2 years ago #No I didn't pay for it and I know plugins are not total freebies. I am not however adverse to donating to the creators of them either.
The site examples just highlight my quibble really. They where edited to suit, http://marketing21.biz/?cat=6 being a case in point. Centered and colour matched.
Your reason for it being there may offer some merit. But I am complaining more about the fact that you added the line and the user didn't get any opportunity in the set up to say what position / colour / font it uses. Plus none of this is in the readme file - why not cover it in there?
Take this as constructive criticism to develop your plugin or ignore me, it's up to you. We'll have to agree to disagree in that case.
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Posted 2 years ago #Its not in the readme, I've never seen a plugin developer that writes free software place any kind of licensing in the readme, instead it is where it should be, in the License.txt (also very big link in the admin panel as well that includes that license).
The footer is injected where the wpfooter is, and is formatted the same way as the footer but on a new line. If you have obscured or personalized the wordpress footer, then yeah, its not going to show up correctly, but if you have designed your site in consideration of the wordpress footer, it blends in fine.
http://marketing21.biz/?cat=6 was not edited, the code is the same, html at least. Again that site also makes no consideration for the wordpress footers, thus it doesn't "quite" fit, but its not a sore thumb either.
I don't mind making it customizable, that is fine, in fact the next version will have a way to customize what page you want the copyright on and it will ping our server and our server will render a license for the server hosting it, if our server can find a non-obscured link on the page they specified, the software will work fine, if not, someone will have a "LOT" of coding to do in order to get the plugin working.
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arghagain
Posted 2 years ago #cannot deactivate super captcha. After deactivate it remains active in the active box. When remove the super captcha folder/files from plugins folder in wp-content, the super captcha remains active but show empty description in admin's plugin dashboard. How to fix this? I'm using wordpress mu 2.8.2.
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Posted 2 years ago #This is an error with your WPMU version Arghagain. This was a bug that was reported a while back and after upgrading his version of WPMU all worked fine.
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Posted 2 years ago #I wanted to let everyone know that now we have an option to legitimately remove the credits at the bottom of a site, though its not recommended as the credits also work as a deturant, you can make a donation of any amount over $5.00 and we will send a licensed copy of the software to you. This will also entitle the user to a life-time of licensed copies which he/she will be the first to receive new, stable features (like the logging tool which was available to the persons that had donated 30 days before it was incorporated into the Lesser GPL version).
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Sparkiller
Posted 1 year ago #Could you please point me to the page where i can donate the money for the credit-free version? The donate link leads to the "Open Source" page where i cannot find a PayPal-button or anything like that. Thanks!
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