I always used Akismet on

Megan — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:56:15 +0000

I always used Akismet on Wordpress, and it worked well for me as long as it was kept up to date. More recently I started moderating all comments on certain poasts (and had a plugin for that but I can't remember what it was called ... my site never got put back after we moved servers a year ago). A lot of comments are complete garbage anyway, so moderating them keeps the quality up.

On Drupal I don't think I work on anything that has open comments... here on the forums we use Spambot module, which runs new registrations through Stop Forum Spam.

I don't do Wordpress for

Greg K — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:36:27 +0000

I don't do Wordpress for blogging, so i never have to worry about comments, so my answer is for just things like contact form and other forms specific for a page....

I don't use any plugin for them. Since I'm a programmer and my clients don't need to (or want to) edit the forms, I just hand code them all from a template I use. It is actually part of my custom caching system I put in place for wordpress, after the page renders, it looks for [[FORM:form_name]] and replaces it with the form code or results from processing it. Some of the things implemented:

Honeypot (a field labeled URL that is indented off the screen that needs to be left blank, but bots see)

Time Checking: Forms as set to only accept a submit within a certain period of time from when it was rendered, usually an hour. Started that when I had to clean up a site where a bot had learned the form and just started directly submitting spam over and over to it.

For sites hosted on my server, it gets passed to an API I wrote that will do a few checks for on the submission, such as geolocation, keyword triggering and IP use threshold per hour. If it it trips anything, it will store the submission into a database, and require the submitter to click on a link in an email to release it.

With just those in place it has cut down on the junk e-mail my clients received to almost nothing. After a couple of months, the keyword tracking was added to and tweaked nicely.

-Greg