Stopping Wordpress spam

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June 7th, 2007 Posted in Goin' to Town

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Every blog that I use Wordpress on has been hit hard by spam the last three days. I don’t know what it is or why the normally reliable Akismet is not catching them for me. Here’s what I’ve done to remedy that, and I’d encourage you to consider something similar if you’re seeing the same problems.

Install Spam Karma 2
Install Word Verify plugin.
Install Bad Behavior

Those three working in tandem have put to a grinding halt what was becoming a real pain. You’ll notice that I have the math comment protection plug-in installed here at Notes on the comment form. I always wonder if my readers’ poor math skills often prevents more comments from coming in…

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2 Responses to “Stopping Wordpress spam”

K.T. Says:

June 7th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I hope the poor math skills are not the problem……LOL
Notes from the Trail » Stopping Wordpress spam, part 2 Says:

June 10th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
[...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had posted about Wordpress spam earlier, but I wanted to update you. I’ve found that Spam Karma 2 works GREAT, but it was [...]

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