Capture and the Living

Two unrelated issues we have been looking at over the last couple of days.

We have implemented a Captcha functionality sitewide to prevent spambloggers. This requires a little configuration on individual blogs, so have a look when you get a chance and ensure it is doing the business, otherwise you might get some unwanted registrations!

And the living? Well, we wanted to include the living in family trees but needed to institute some kind of opt-in / opt-out privacy for users so that, for example, dates of birth aren’t available to all and sundry. We achieved this with the Member Access plugin which can ensure that all pages are private by default. On Dixon-Spain we created a “You need to be a member …” page for the blocked pages to divert visitors to.