After joining Project Honey Pot and their release of http:BL, I wanted it to use on my blog and Joomla! sites, for wordpress there was already a plugin that does the job, but couldn’t find any for Joomla! so I made a system plugin.
http:BL System Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your website against the Project Honey Pot database. It checks whether your visitor is an email harvester, a comment spammer or any other malicious client. Communication with verification server is done via DNS request mechanism.
Now, thanks to http:BL System Plugin any potentially harmful clients are denied from accessing your website and therefore abusing it.
Project page
I was busy with some Joomla! modules to help navigate my site better, but due to a bug in Joomla! 1.5 API, which is okay as it’s still no stable release. Only the search module is ready. You can place it on your searh page to give some extra guidance to your visitors by showing what others have searched.
I’m also working on most popular section/category and content with some extra options, but they have to wait until the bugs are solved.
Most searched: Project page
I have written 2 new plugins for Joomla! 1.5 today, Widont and Nofollow.
Widont based on a excellent plugin by Shaun Inman for wordpress, but I needed it’s functionality for Joomla! so ported it for Joomla! 1.5. It makes sure your content title or heading don’t have a single word on the next line.
The second is plugin just makes sure every outgoing link in your content has the link attribute “nofollow”. Some Joomla! sites might needed it with a lot of user generated content.
Both can be found on the Joomla! project page, enjoy.