{"id":1085,"date":"2007-04-14T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2008-08-17T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:17:03","slug":"plugins-behaving-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Plugins Behaving Badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the feedback from <a href=\"?p=1081\">yesterday<\/a>, I&#8217;ve turned off Bad Behavior and added a new plugin which does <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">captcha<\/a>.  (Captchas? Chptchai? Is there a proper plural for this annoying and cumbersome acronym? Hard to remember, hard to spell, hard to pronounce! It&#8217;s a trifecta!)  The new plugin shouldn&#8217;t daunt you with unreadable swirly characters, white on an off-white background with medium-white lines in the background.   It just uses a few easy-to-recognize words and simple fonts.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another step readers have to take in order to comment, and the rejection screen is appalingly crude, but otherwise the system should be painless.  <\/p>\n<p>Feedback desired.  Let me know if the thing acts up.  If you can&#8217;t post at all, please let me know:  shamus -at- shamusyoung dot com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the feedback from yesterday, I&#8217;ve turned off Bad Behavior and added a new plugin which does captcha. (Captchas? Chptchai? Is there a proper plural for this annoying and cumbersome acronym? Hard to remember, hard to spell, hard to pronounce! It&#8217;s a trifecta!) The new plugin shouldn&#8217;t daunt you with unreadable swirly characters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}