So, along with the new WordPress 2.1 we have a new version of the comment-spam-killer Akismet. It’s good, but not 100%, so I’m experimenting with other plugins as well.
A really nice idea is that of automatically turning off comments after a certain length of time (i.e. 3 months) as I’ve noticed almost all my comment spam is for OLD posts.
James McKay has already done this and offered it up to the internets here. It is made of 100% WIN and I like it very much indeed. It has many settings to fiddle with, although the defaults work right out of the box too.
I’m also using a ‘captcha’ service from ProtectWebForm.com that appears to be a free service – what nice people. They have a cunning method of detecting if you are using a proper web browser or something without Java Script, which most humans have turned on, and will only show you the “enter the magic secret code” form if it thinks you are an ROBOTZ!!!onetyone.
So far, after turning those on I have NO comment spam – wahey! I’m very happy.
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hmm some cheeky fella managed to get some spam through. Oh well! It was still caught by the ‘manually approve comments’ stuff.
Comment by bubb — 7 February 2007 #
I use Spam Karma in conjunction with Akismet, seems to work…
Comment by Boso — 15 February 2007 #