just a thought…

Attention WordPress 2.5 users!!! You will want to use the development version of recapture for now. After this school semester ends, I plan on doing a ‘proper’ release that will look prettier in WordPress 2.5.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recapture/download/

If you are using WordPress 2.3.x continue to use version 0.1

Current version = 0.1

I hate WordPress user registration spam almost as much as I hate comment spam. Fortunately, WordPress comes with a lovely bit of code called Akismet that takes care of almost all comment spam singlehandedly. Unfortunately, WordPress does not have any built-in features for dealing with user registration spam–this is where Recapture comes in.

Recapture displays a reCAPTCHA on the user registration form in an attempt to combat user registration spam. If you’d like to see it in action, click on the register link above.

This is my first WordPress plugin, and so far, it seems to be working just fine. It can even coexist with the reCAPTCHA plugin for comment spam, provided that you enable that plugin first, and Recapture second. I owe many thanks to the authors of the aforementioned reCAPTCHA plugin and the WordPress plugin documentation, for those two sources basically taught me how to create this. I am not ‘the best programmer ever’, but I am constantly learning and improving.

If you have any questions or problems related to Recapture (or if you find any laughably-obvious bugs), please send an email to ben c masters at gmail dot com and I’ll do my best to help you out.