Just recently I’ve been getting a tonne of spam, as this video shows, some cheeky monkey has written an application just to spam BlogEngine sites, how very dare they. Anyway, version 1.6.1 of BlogEngine comes with reCapcha as a built-in extension to combat spam. If like me you were running version 1.6, an upgrade guide can be found here.
It’s pretty straight forward and adds the reCapcha box just below your comments box.
- Delete ~/App_GlobalResources/labels.ko-KR.resx
- Merge folders (override if exists):
- ~/admin
- ~/App_GlobalResources
- ~/App_Code/Extensions
- ~/bin
- Override only these files:
- ~/archive.aspx
- ~/archive.aspx.cs
- ~/blog.js
- ~/page.aspx
- ~/page.aspx.cs
- ~/post.aspx
- ~/post.aspx.cs
- ~/search.aspx.cs
- ~/themes/Standard/PostView.ascx
- ~/User controls/CommentView.ascx
- ~/User controls/CommentView.ascx.cs
- ~/widgets/RecentPosts/widget.ascx.cs
