Version 2.1 of the WordPress plugin AVH First Defense Against Spam has been released today.
What’s new
- Added an IP caching system.
- Administrative layout changes.
- Optional email can be send with information about the cron jobs of the plugin.
- Bugfix: The default setting to terminate the connection for Project Honey Pot was unrealistic.
You can find the AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin on it’s own page.

Hi — Autoinstalled the update today and am receiving the following error when selecting FAQ from the AVH FDAS Menu:
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘AVH_FDAS_Admin::doMenuFAQ()’ was given in …/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 339
Super plugin. Thanks for all your work!
Rick
Thanks for reporting.
Gotta do more and better testing next time.
I just uploaded version 2.1.1 which fixes the problem.
Thanks for the quick fix!
Rick
Thanks for this great plugin.
Just installed 2.1.1 and when wanting to go to “settings” I am taken to this URL
…/weblog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=.
and I get the error message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Bug? What is the page address for settings?
Did you click on the settings link on the plugin page? That seems to be a bug indeed.
The options can be found on the left hand site under the menu AVH F.D.A.S
Yes that was it. Thanks. Good stuff. I just downloaded v2.1.2
I am now getting hundreds of emails per day from AVH asking me to add IP’s to the local blacklist. Is there any way to turn this off or automate the process?
Set the following options so the 3rd party settings page:
Stop Forum Spam Box
Email Threshold => -1
Honey Pot Project
Email score threshold => -1
You could still receive emails because they are in the mailq of your server. Somebody reported receiving emails in his/her gmail account even when the mailq on the server was empty, apparently gmail has a mechanism to stop bulk emails.
my threshold is/was set to -1 and I have not yet enabled Honey Pot… ?
Stephan
Could you please go to my forum, it seems to be a bigger problem and it’s lets cluttering to discuss this problem there.
http://forums.avirtualhome.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=198&start=0
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Peter — I cannot seem to turn off the emails either. Same settings as Stephan mentions.
Could you please go to my forum, it seems to be a bigger problem and it’s lets cluttering to discuss this problem there.
http://forums.avirtualhome.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=198&start=0
Sorry for the inconvenience.