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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: WP-reCAPTCHA] Spam Getting Through reCAPTCHA](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-recaptcha-spam-getting-through-recaptcha/)
 *  [brap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brap/)
 * (@brap)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-recaptcha-spam-getting-through-recaptcha/#post-829794)
 * Same here. I’m getting lots of comment spam as well. I have all trackback and
   pingbacks turned off, globally and for every individual post. I even have the
   simple trackback validation plugin installed just in case.
 * It seems to be automated comment spam, so somehow they found a way to circumvent
   the wp-recaptcha plugin. OR as someone else said, there is someone on the internet
   with a lot of time to manually enter all this.
 * As soon as I turn off user entered comments, the spam stops.
 * Unfortunately I’m going to have to go with another captcha plugin until this 
   gets fixed.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [Developing Plugin, wp_options data gets erased](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-plugin-wp_options-data-gets-erased/)
 *  Thread Starter [brap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brap/)
 * (@brap)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-plugin-wp_options-data-gets-erased/#post-1018105)
 * Guys and Gals,
 * I discovered my problem, I’m sorry for posting this issue as it was a logic error
   in my plugin. I’ve been working on this way too long today and I’m at the point
   I’m making stupid mistakes 🙂
 * I’ll explain what happened in case it may help someone else in the future.
 * In my plugin, I had a line of code that checked when the management page of my
   plugin submitted the form to update the plugin’s options, like this:
 *     ```
       if($_POST['action'] == 'update')
       {
       	// we are saving my_plugin options from my_plugin_manager.php
       	$sl->SaveOptions($_POST["my_plugin_options"]);
       }
       ```
   
 * The problem is that anytime a setting is updated under the Settings menu on wordpress,
   $_POST[‘action’] == ‘update’ is always true.
 * I needed to pass a hidden form variable as an identifier so that it would only
   update when the form was submitted from my plugins management page, like so:
 *     ```
       if($_POST['action'] == 'update' && $_POST['my_plugin_update'] == 1)
       {
       	// we are saving my_plugin options from my_plugin_manager.php
       	$sl->SaveOptions($_POST["my_plugin_options"]);
       }
       ```
   
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [RSS Summary Option (does not stick)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-summary-option-does-not-stick/)
 *  [brap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brap/)
 * (@brap)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-summary-option-does-not-stick/#post-968852)
 * Hello,
 * I am having the same issue and have posted on these forums for help as well, 
   but with no luck. I am using wordpress 2.7. I found another thread where someone
   with 2.6 was having the issue as well.
 * It seems to me, this option gets reset during periods of high pingback and trackback
   spam. It must be a bug in wordpress that is triggering it. I’ve done a lot of
   searching and I haven’t found a solution to the problem. I’m running the latest
   version of wordpress and it isn’t fixed in this version.
 * I think we might have to wait and hope it will be fixed in the next release.
 * Ryan
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [RSS summary problem / question](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-summary-problem-question/)
 *  Thread Starter [brap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brap/)
 * (@brap)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-summary-problem-question/#post-968850)
 * I think I might have discovered a clue as to what is going on.
 * I get a lot of ping back and track back spam, though I have my blog set up so
   that I have to approve comments before they appear, this spam never makes it 
   onto a page.
 * However, from time to time, some of this spam is somehow causing the setting 
   Settings->Reading->’For each articles in a feed, show:’ to be reset to ‘Full 
   Text’.
 * Several times I have set that option to ‘Summary’, and for the past 2 days have
   been logging in to check the status, and after periods of high spam activity,
   this setting gets reset to ‘full text’.
 * At first I thought I was going crazy and I was just making a mistake, or something
   stupid, but today I made a concious effort to write down the times I saved the
   option as ‘summary’, and sure enough a few hours later it would be set back to‘
   full text’.
 * I guess I will turn off ping backs and track backs for now and see if that prevents
   this bug from occurring. I like to keep it on just to track of the incoming links
   these spammers are kind enough to place on their spam site to my blog.
 * Is wordpress aware of this?
 * Thanks!
    Ryan

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