Sweetcaptcha WordPress Plugin deliberately creates popups
Posted: June 26, 2016 Filed under: Computers, Wordpress Leave a comment »For a little while, I’ve been surprised by popups on my blog site dpod.kakelbont.ca (tl;dr: they don’t happen any more because I removed the SweetCaptcha plugin).
I’m not quite sure the contexts in which I’d been seeing them, but for whatever reason I thought they were coming as an artefact of something else: a bottom banner on my cellphone that I was accidentally touching or something similar.
But today it became clear that there really was Something Amiss. When I checked on both Chrome and Firefox, it was happening the first time I clicked on any page link in my site. It took a little while googling for a solution (turns out a lot of people want popups to appear in their Wordpress sites and most things I found were about how to make them happen).
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Posted: August 24, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Digital Humanities, Essays, General, Research, Scholarly publishing, Textpattern, Wordpress | Tags: blogs, Ernesto Priego, instititonal repository, Matt Schneider, retweeting, Twitter Leave a comment »I’ve been engaged with on-line scholarly publication for almost two decades. For a while in the middle of the first decade of this century in fact, my most popular and most often cited publication was a 1998 webpage describing my plans for an electronic edition of the Old English poem Caedmon’s Hymn Read the rest of this entry »