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  1. Adding to the User Manager

    I'm currently adding a new page to the User Manager plugin which does three essential things that have so far been lacking in Hotaru. The admin will be able to...

    1. create new users
    2. send a user a new password
    3. re-send an email validation email

    The first one is done. You simply provide a user name and email and hit "Add New User". Hotaru will generate a random password and send it in an email to the new user.

    The other two are pretty ...
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  2. Anti-Spam Progress

    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 ...