You Asked, Justin Delivered
A few readers have commented that my new Challenge Question Plugin, while great, was causing a problem when you forget to answer the question before submitting the comment. If you do that, you get taken to a new page asking you to answer the question. The problem was, when you go back to the comment page, your comment was gone. If you just spent a good 10 minutes writing a detailed comment, I can see how this would be upsetting.
This problem has now been fixed. Thanks to the coding genius of Justin from My PC Rig, if you forget to answer the challenge question, a screen will pop up saying, “Please answer the question! It’s 2007 in case you didn’t know.” Give it a try. It’s good for a laugh.
If you answer the challenge question wrong, it will take you to a new page saying you’re wrong and when you go back, your comment will be gone. Justin is working on turning that into a pop up message as well. So for now, make sure you know what year it is!
*Update - When you answer the question wrong, a pop up screen nows shows up as well.
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Very very nice indeed. Justin you’re the man. I hope to one day be a L337 h4×0r like you. Sorry. But good job with that, i actually did write a lengthy post and out of habbit forgot about the date thing. Thanks.
Reply to this commentI wanted give a try. This is my first time that I am reading your blog. I came from Q-Taro’s Page.
Reply to this commentI like specially about the monetizing blogs. Keep up the good work.
Sweet! Does this mean you’ll be using AJAX soon?
Reply to this commentI doubt it, you still get a hard refresh for every comment you make, only thing this javascript do is nag you instead of annoy you by redirecting you
Reply to this commentThanks. I hope everyone enjoys my 1337 skills!
Reply to this comment1337 indeed. Nice work I like the sarcasm in the message.
Reply to this commentAre nunchuck skills apart of those 1337?
Reply to this commentAwesome. Now we’ve got to wonder how that question will work on New Year’s Eve, given that many of us are in different time zones.
Reply to this commentThe answer is set manually, and by that time, I’m sure we can have duel answers.
Reply to this commentGood job Justin. I got burned by that but figured it was just tough luck for me. Great to see fixes that make people’s lives just ever so slightly easier
Reply to this commentJustin, you’re the man! This will make a lot of peoples lives a lot easier…dunno, just a hunch
Reply to this commentGreat work Justin!
Reply to this commentThanks to both John and Justin, as I also fell victim to this when making my first comment after it was introduced on the site.
Reply to this commentMaybe I didn’t read something correctly, but is this nifty fix available for other users of the plugin?
Reply to this commentUmm, no. However, if you are running the same Plugin AND the threaded comments Plugin, I can show you want parts of the codes you need to change.
Reply to this commentI just noticed there was a nice little jump in your subscribers john, when i looked it was at 1739. usually it hovers around 13XX i believe
Reply to this commentYup, saw it too, in fact it’s still like that right now, pretty impressive.
Reply to this commentThats very nice !!
Reply to this commentVery similar to the brilliant Vbulletin hack NOSPAM. You can find it here: link
Reply to this commentmaybe you shud try something like what is ther in my blog, it has a basic math question each time. . .
Reply to this commentyeah, I did the same thing. But fortunately my comment was not very long.
Reply to this commentIs there any way the magnificent Justin could share his coding prowess for us lesser mortals?
We would be most appreciative.
Reply to this commentGuess I came a few days late and did not face problems of losing posts which I had typed out. But anyways looks like a great option to block spamming!
Reply to this commentIf the plugin is written in PHP can’t you use the sticky form method?
or include in a cookie that contains the user information like Name so visitors won’t have to type in their name every time?
Reply to this commentwordpress ate my php code, escape the characters, here it is again
<?php if(isset($_POST['comment'])) echo $_POST['comment'];?>
Reply to this commentJohn if someone gets the year wrong the message should automatically erase and instead the comment should read I’m Stupid. That way everyone would know that that person got the year wrong.
Reply to this commentLOL…I like this idea…although I may top the chart
Reply to this commentIf you use Opera, the comments wont go anywhere.
I had installed that plugin couple of months ago, and I got complaints that the questions were too tough!! So I changed to this plugin : http://www.herod.net/dypm/
Reply to this commentThis is crap, i hate questions, i went to school to answer questions, i answer questions from my girlfriend, and now from you?
I’ve had it!
Reply to this commentSo Greg we will see you tomorow?
Reply to this commentI think we’ll see him the day after that too!
Reply to this commentThanks all for your kind words!
Reply to this commenttest
Reply to this commentJustin is my hero!
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