Upgrade to WP 2.0

Been working a little on the back end here at engatiki.org, even if I haven’t posted since…um…let’s just not talk about that, shall we? The upgrade to 2.0 has gone fairly smoothly. Formatting plugins broke, but with the new buitl-in WYSIWYG editor, Markdown isn’t really a loss, depite my affection for all things daring fireball, and the unholy combo of John Grubers’ Markdown plugin and Jerome Lavigne’s PreFormatted caching plugin wreaked havoc with Ecto, anyway.

The biggest loss was Brian Schneider’s Bot Check, the plugin that supplies the random strings that help guard against comment spam. fortunately, one of his users who had time to sift through the WP code or changelog came up with this tidbit:

This plugin doesn’t work because “post_comment_text”, the filter it hooks into WordPress with, was deprecated but still supported in WP 1.5. It has totally gone away in WP 2.0.

If you change “post_comment_text” to “preprocess_comment” in bot-check.php, everything works the same way as it always did. (Including eating the comment text if the user enters the wrong numeric string.) [link]

Works like magic.