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I’ve written a new module, well a variation on my existing recent posts module, at the request of Wally (yes, you read right). This isn’t meant to replace the original recent posts module, it’s merely an alternative. This version adds a summary underneath the post title.

It find its way into your inbox, clogging up your emails with stock market trade deals, wonder drugs, and p0rn. A decent anti-spam service can at least get rid of 90% of it. If only that was the end of it though. Now these spammers are attacking our blogs. I’m sick and tired of seeing yet another comment that is nothing more than jibbersh and a link to some p0rn site. Bog off, I don’t want it.

I’ve tried using Akismet to reduce it, and that works well. But they are still sneaking through. I’ve added another layer of spam protection in the form of Spam Karma 2 with an Akismet SK2 plugin. Will that prove enough to keep out the spammers? I doubt it. Pah.

I noticed a problem with JD-WP modules in the latest release of Joomla. It seems that Joomla is stricter with regards to arrays now. With the current release of JD-WP, any JD-WP module displayed on a non JD-WP page will result in an array error in file \components\com_jd-wp\wp-includes\locale.php.

The solution is on the bugtracker for JD-WP, though I’m sure (judging by forum posts on the matter) that most folk haven’t looked. So here’s the fix, lifted directly from bugtracker. Add one line of code before the first $month declaration…

BEFORE :
// The Months
$month[’01′] = __(’January’);
$month[’02′] = __(’February’);
$month[’03′] = __(’March’);

AFTER :
// The Months
$month = array(); // shumisha
$month[’01′] = __(’January’);
$month[’02′] = __(’February’);
$month[’03′] = __(’March’);

I’ve updated the Latest Comments Module to allow you to specify the colour of the text for the commenter links. This enables you to tailor the module to suit your Joomla templates.

I’ve written a Mambot extending the Joomla search component. It allows searching of JD-WordPress content. Current release searches title and post content.

edit: now also searches comments.

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