Hi Gregg,
Thanks for the feedback, and I’m glad you like it.
I agree with you that it’s confusing. I was trying to stick with as much of WP’s core functionality and I haven’t yet found a way to exit as gracefully as I would like using a core hook. What I’ve done for now when it fails is erase the comment field and then hand control back to core so it fails there. I figured it is a good start since the comment spam robots wouldn’t really care about the message.
As I continue development, I’ll test out my own kill switch inside the plugin but I want to make sure that if I kill it there, I’m not leaving any unresolved issues elsewhere.
If it can exit without causing any other problems, I’ll be able to add a more user-friendly message.
The plugin updates should keep you posted on my progress but feel free to check in occasionally. Take care,
Gregg,
I went through the code and added better user-friendly error messages. I tested it out on one setup and will continue to do so on others. If you want to test it out, I uploaded it as 0.9.1. Please let me know your thoughts if you do decide to try it out. If it works nicely, I’ll add some filters to make it customizable and roll the improvements into the next stable release.
