We have put some exciting new improvements into our Blog Cube module making it more flexible, more powerful, and easier to use.

The first change is optionally adding in a CAPTCHA to eliminate automated junk comments.  A CAPTCHA is that image of squiggly letters that you are asked to type below when submitting something to verify that you are an actual human being and not an automated spam computer.  By requiring a user to quickly type these five characters, your blog is protected from junk "spam bots" which can often attempt to put hundreds of junk comments on your blog a day.

The second improvement also regards potentially unwanted comments, and also is optional.  You can now choose to have your blog moderated or not.  If you choose to have it moderated, new comments will not appear on your blog until you approve them.  If you choose to have your blog not moderated new comments will appear instantly as usual.  In either case you will receive an email notification of the comment with options to click a link to approve, block, or delete the comment instantly without having to log in to your control panel and locate it.

The third improvement is a new automated RSS feed which puts a "subscribe" link on your blog and allows readers to subscribe and be notified in their RSS reader instantly of any new posts to your blog.

In connection with these three new features, the fourth addition to the blog is a blog settings section in your blog control panel where you can select all the options you want, including specifying a title for your blog.

We hope you enjoy the new additions, and we have many more improvements already planned!