reCAPTCHA Troubles with Wordpress 2.7 Upgrade
After manually upgrading the NPT blog to Wordpress 2.7, I was feeling pretty proud of myself… and relieved. Because the blog was installed manually, I do manual upgrades and hold my breath in suspense each and every time until the very end of the process when the software tells me that the upgrade was performed ’successfully’.
Around the same time I sent out a newsletter alerting folks to the latest blog post about PPC (link below).
Strangely, the post received a pingback, but not one single, solitary comment in 24 hours. Very strange in fact, considering comments usually start coming in within minutes of posting.
I felt a little dejected and conjured up excuses like “everyone’s too busy watching Anderson’s interview with Barack to reply”. Weak, I know — especially considering I didn’t put one and one together to think that the lack of commentary had anything to do with the upgrade.
Thankfully, Gill Clark sent a message through our Support Desk to let us know that there was a problem with the reCAPTCHA code and an error that read “This reCAPTCHA key isn’t authorized for the given domain”.
AH-HAAAAA.
Weird, considering I entered the exact same key that I’d used before when I re-activated the reCAPTCHA plugin after the upgrade.
Anyway, the reCAPTCHA has been temporarily removed. Now make my day — I’d love to hear your comments about the “Losing Money on Your PPC Campaigns?” article as well as any thoughts on the reCAPTCHA issue. 
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Rosalind Gardner is a Super Affiliate blogger, author, speaker, and Internet marketing consultant.
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Hi Rosalind, glad you have things back on track. I wish I had the nerve to do a manual upgrade, but give me a little time. I enjoy your blog, keep the great info coming!
yeah you are right its a trouble in Recaptcha with wp2.7.
Just found your blog through Google, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoy it. I’ve subscribed and I can’t wait for your next post! I don’t like the recaptcha trouble either.
I don’t know Ros….your first guess may have been at least partly right…..I mean…..Rosalind Gardner vs. Barack Obama…..WHO DO YOU THINK is going to pull more viewers? (LOL!)
A few months ago the primeministerial debates were on at the same time on the same night as just one of the many U.S. Presidential debates……I don’t know about you, but I watched the U.S. debates…give me Barack vs. McCain over Harper et al …… ANY day of the week! Wish we had somebody like Barack up here, instead of the “Desperate Housewives” we do have. (our whole federal political system has turned into a nightime soap….remember the last episode? Imagine…a coalition of the weak, dumb, and uninformed! LOL!). I’d even be happy if Ross Perot came up and took a turn at the wheel for a while….
Anyway, I digress (in my most unopinionated and open minded way!) (LOL!)
Best ,
Michael Rytter
Vedder Mountain Hardwoods
Regarding the reCaptcha, and submitting comments in general:
Is it possible to make the comment system give some feedback after leaving a comment? Something like ‘We have received your comment’?
At the moment, it just takes you back to the same page, and sometimes I can’t tell if it worked or not.
Hi Rosalind
I had the same problems after updating to 2.7 on philwiley.com, but I’ve solved it with a double anti comment spam measure that’s working great, and I can now allow comments without links to be posted immediately.
The first is a captcha plugin http://www. theblog.ca/anti-spam which I saw being used on a big UK newspaper site, and the second is http:// wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/ which works by checking if the comment is being posted by a person or a bot, and blocks attempts by bots.
Hope this helps.
Phil
Hey Phil,
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check out your suggestions.
BTW, will I see you at Yanik’s?
Cheers,
Ros
I’ve love to see you at Yanik’s, but I can’t make it this year. My daughter has been living in England for the past 3 years and she’s coming home on the second day of the seminar. Got to put her first
I’m hoping to get over to something this year though
Phil
Thank you from for the tip Phil,
I am currently experiencing multiple serious hardware failures, so I will check out your suggestions later this evening too!
I would only add that I use PHPCaptcha.org on a non WordPress site and really like it. It’s doing the job very well.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
Kind regards,
Frank Eckdall
Unix Admin
aka Frank & Shiva
P.D. If time allows I will see if I can code a plugin for WordPress using open source software that works with WP 2.7
Pity for us, Phil — I would have loved to have caught up with you. But hey, at least your priorities are in the right place. You’ve always managed to get the work/life balance just right and I applaud you for that!
I passed up Affiliate Summit West last year for a family ski trip. This year the ski trip is happening 2 days after I get back from the Underground… so I’m thrilled to be able to do both.
Enjoy your visit and I’m sure we’ll catch up again at some point… (the cigar bar in D.C. again maybe?) .
Best,
Ros