I’m wondering if the known bug in gatekeeper 1.5 depends on which theme you’re running? I’m running journalized-blue, and it was rejecting comments with “Sorry, posting has been closed for the time being.” errors.
I’m running Eric Meyer’s gatekeeper anti-spam tool. He has one known bug listed, where the auto-challenge feature doesn’t always insert the challenge in the comment form. I had tested this when I first installed the software, and it worked at the time, so I forgot about it. Then I added a bunch of themes to my site. I started getting a few complaints from people, saying that comments were closed, so I went and checked all my settings–all my comment settings looked correct, so I was stumped. Until I remembered about that known bug…
I found that my journalized-blue theme was rejecting comments from non-registered users. I added an explicit call to gatekeeperposechallenge() per this suggestion on Eric’s page.
I put the following code in the journalized-blue theme comments.php, between the email and text inputs:
if (functionexists(’gatekeeperposechallenge’)) {
gatekeeperpose_challenge(”,3); // default format string, tab index==3
}
(Need I mention that this needs to be wrapped with php tags?)
I have the theme switcher installed and several themes available, so I’ll log out and try to comment on this post anonymously with each of my themes.
Well, I tried all my themes. The only one that worked was my modified J-blue theme, with an explicit call to the gatekeep challenge function.
I found myself that Spam Karma works for me as well.