About 1.5 months ago my blog started to receive a relatively massive amount of comments spam. First I thought I will fight it manually on my own, but, after a few days it defeated me.
I went on a search for the best Wordpress anti spam solution. After reading some reviews it looked like Akismet is a good one, so I started with it, to see if it’ll keep its promise. Indeed, in about 1.5 months Akismet has stopped 575 spam comments, and only 4 have passed through its defense. The 4 comments who infiltrated were very modest, with only 1 link in the name and with a non offensive looking URL. Akismet can stop most of these modest looking spam too.
Akismet is installed automatically on Wordpress-2 and above, and it said to support Wordpress-1.5.2 and above. But, a friend of mine has reported, from experience, that it can be used also in Wordpress version 1.5.0 with minor limitation.
In order to activate Akismet you need a Wordpress API Key. You can simply get an API Key by signing for an account at wordpress.com, get yourself a blog account like http://guya.wordpress.com/ and you’ll be able to use the API Key you’ll get on any given Wordpress blog, no matter where it’s hosted.
I just wonder, if my little humble blog gets 575 spam comments in 1.5 month, how much the big blogs get, 5750, or maybe 57,750 ?
Download Akismet.
Good luck with your war on spam.
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Yeah akismet works wonder for me.. its too good a plugin
This doesn’t work for WordPress 1.5. You go to put in your API key and it fails.
Oh well.
[...] Since I’ve installed Akismet last year it saved my blog from 100,425 spam comments. It seems to me like an insane amount of spam for an easy going blog like mine, and though I haven’t counted it, I guess only a few hundreds have managed to passed through its defenses. Over that year I kept on reading about other spam plugins and it doesn’t seems to me that there is a better solution yet for bloggers. If you run a wordpress blog or any other comments driven website then you should install it, it’s fast and easy. [...]
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hmm. It is always bothering and disgusting for the blog editors and I strongly suggest you to use some kinds of automade software in order to avoide the spam comments. Thanks.
http://www.Gogetmlm.com
Yeah, spam is always annoying in any form. Especially on comments: http://www.antispam-softwarereviews.com/
Akismet really is a key plugin for wordpress to keep all the spam out, they do a very good job, it stops most of the rubbish getting through onto my site.
Well, it didn’t stop you, MR. Rugby