Happy fucking holidays! My gift to you is a not broken comment function!

Apparently it’s been broken since I upgraded to TextPattern v4.04. Some folks have told me that they were denied due to IP blacklisting but I mistakenly assumed it was caused by the handful of comment spam messages I had specifically blacklisted. As it turns out, it wasn’t. Everyone was blacklisted, including yours truly.

At issue was a single period. Buried deep within Advanced section of the Admin Preferences in TextPattern is a field marked “Spam blacklists (comma-separated).” Up until this morning mine said sbl.spamhaus.org when it should have said sbl.spamhaus.org. and that little period made the difference between wholesale IP blocking and everything working as intended. This is why I should really read the FAQs when upgrading.