Nick's Hotaru CMS Blog

I think it's a good time to zip up all the files and offer a download version of Hotaru CMS. We used to have everything zipped up, but it became a real chore to maintain when so many updates were being made across so many files. Now, though, things have changed somewhat. I don't expect any major overhauls of the core system, and plugins can be dealt with separately. But what exactly is involved in "zipping up" the files?

There are currently 46 plugins for Hotaru. So each forum ...

Tags: plans, updates, zip

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It's typical that a few hours after announcing 1.0.5 that some rather nasty bugs revealed themselves, mostly to do with removing user content. I had one user that was upset at people criticizing the quality of his submission. First he edited his comments so they were blank. That made the Latest Comments and Activity widgets look broken. Then he edited the post description with *ADMINS - PLEASE DELETE ACCOUNT ENTIRELY*, and from then on things went really bad as Hotaru failed to "clean" ...

Tags: broken, bugs

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My son's a fan of Bob the Builder, a British kids show about a team of construction vehicles and their leader, Bob. In every episode, all the characters chant "Can we fix it? Yes, we can!"

So I've had the theme song for that in my head this last week while doing my best to fix all the bugs that have surfaced since putting JapanSoc on Hotaru. There are still a few more bugs and loose ends I want to sort out, and that's delaying things a bit, but I have the whole day free tomorrow ...

Tags: 1.0.5, bob the builder, dedicated, donation, obama, paypal, server, svn, trunk, upgrade, yes we can

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Since moving JapanSoc to HotaruCMS about 48 hours ago, I've added 32 spammers to the StopForumSpam database and have four pages of them on my "Blocked List". I usually get hit by the same spammers again and again, so hopefully once they're all banned, things will quieten down a lot.

Now that I'm getting some real spam to test Hotaru's numerous anti-spam features on, I'm uncovering a few issues that makes zapping spammers less fun than it should be. First of all, the email ...

Tags: anti-spam, email, post manager, spam, user manager

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Yep, it's true...

JapanSoc was plagued by spam. You never saw it, but I got it in my email box and manually deleted it everyday for the last two years and three months. As a result, the database had grown to ugly proportions, filled with the remnants of deleted users, stories, votes, comments, tags, and more. In fact, it was too big for phpMyAdmin’s export feature, so I decided to run a database cleanup module I made ages ago. That module worked, and I was able to backup the database

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Tags: japansoc, live

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