Defeating Comment Spam With Akismet
June 9, 2010
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Today while at work, my HTC Hero started flashing incessantly as I received email after email about moderating “new blog comments”. Normally I’d welcome such an occurrence but in this case every single one was spam.
I thought, “No problem, I’ll just look at the IP and block that IP”. Unfortunately, each of the messages was somehow coming from a different IP! Perhaps they were being generated from a network of spambots, or perhaps a lot of people suddenly hate me. Regardless, I wanted it to stop.
This is when I came across the free Akismet WordPress plugin. You can of course read about it at the official website or at Wikipedia. But what you really need to know is: continue reading…
