New anti-spam plug-in: SecureImage

  • SecureImage is a dynamic, graphic overlay plug-in for WordPress 1.5 that generates a unique text key. Comment posters are required to enter the text code before WordPress will save the message in the database. SecureImage requires ImageMagick’s convert utility in order to combine the random text and background image.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Nice work! Added to the Codex list:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Combating_Comment_Spam#Captcha

    I was wondering if anyone else has had the issue of the background image being displayed but the random text not appearing over it. I’ve got ImageMagick installed and have tried variations on where the font file and the convert.exe is on the hard drive but nothing is really working out. Has anyone else had this problem? Any guidance on how to solve it would be appreciated!

    Thread Starter bishopthom

    (@bishopthom)

    Are you running WP on Windows? I think there is a font problem that needs to be investigated. If I get some time, I plan to install ImageMagick on my XP machine and see if I can track the problem down. Thanks for the feedback.

    Hi there, thanks for the response. Yes, I am running WP on Windows… Windows XP. Any advice on how to get the fonts to display is appreciated!

    Thread Starter bishopthom

    (@bishopthom)

    SecureImage 1.0rc2 has been posted. Windows machines didn’t like the command line that the plugin was generating for ImageMagick. This resulted in a challenge image without text, making the plugin pretty much useless! I changed the quotes around and it seems to be working for both OS’s now. Enjoy.

    Thank you for addressing the Windows problem!

    I’ve changed the settings for convertpath and fontfile to the ImageMagick convert.exe file and the specific location of the arial font. I’m still seeing only the image and not the text so is there anything else I’ve missed? I’ve already moved to the new version 1.0rc2? I guess I just want to make sure I’ve changed whatever lines I need to.

    Thread Starter bishopthom

    (@bishopthom)

    It took a while, but I managed to get a Win32/Apache/MySQL/WP1.5 system up and running thinking that this issue was limited to Windows sytems. Unfortunately, the plugin worked normally. What version of ImageMagick are you running?

    Hi, I’m running ImageMagick 6.2.1 Q16.

    If it’s not too much of an inconvenience to you, could you direct me to a step-by-step process for getting the plug-in to work on Windows? Including the code one would have to adjust? Maybe I’m missing a step…

    Thanks for your help with this plug-in. ??

    Thread Starter bishopthom

    (@bishopthom)

    If you are getting the background image then you have installed the plugin correctly. My guess is that this problem stems from a font problem with ImageMagick, but I don’t know for sure. I would suggest downloading an older/newer version if IM and reconfiguring SecureImage to use convert.exe from the other version and see if the problem persists.

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