Better Wordpress spam controls

Megan's picture

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Is anyone else getting a lot more spam on your blog lately? I have been using Akismet for years but lately it just hasn't been catching enough.

Has anyone tried any alternate spam solutions for Wordpress? Has anyone tried switching to Mollom? I think I might try that and see if it gets better. I had it running on a Drupal site and it seems to do a good job.

Or, are there other solutions to consider?

pr0gr4mm3r's picture

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I have about a half dozen Wordpress sites all using Akismet. I will get a spam comment held in moderation a couple times a week.

Every once in a while though I might get bombarded, almost like a bot is targeting all sites on my IP range or something, but nothing unbearable compared to what it could be.

Megan's picture

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Well, I guess I should be happy that it's only letting through a handful (usually in moderation). I had 181 caught by akismet today alone. Which makes me wonder why I'm getting so much, it's not like I have a huge amount of traffic.

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I simply moderate all my comments which takes care of the problem for us.

Megan's picture

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They are getting held for moderation, it's just the volume of them that's the problem.

Things have been better this week... maybe akismet made some improvements.

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I've had real good luck with Akismet, there are some other plugins out there, just search the word press plugin site, and make sure to check the ratings Smiling

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There are different types of spam controls in word press. In my opinion Akismet is the best tool for controlling spam in word press. Akismet (Automattic Kismet) comes bundled with every copy of Word Press, and all you need to do to use it is sign up for an API key with Word Press.com.

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