Installed Spam Karma plugin
This WordPress-powered blog hasn’t gotten spammed like others seem to have in the WordPress forums. However, if my luck ever runs out, I don’t want to be standing flat-footed. I installed Spam Karma, a feature-rich WordPress plugin that implements multiple anti-comment spam technologies. Although there’s a lot of components, installation involved uploading a few files, changing a folder’s file permissions, then activating the plugin. No hacking any other files, either. Within a couple minutes, it was ready to go.
If you have a WordPress blog, and you haven’t implemented a anti-spam technique, please check out podz’s WordPress guide “Tackling Comment Spam“.
On a side note (but still on topic), the downside with blacklisting IP addresses and words yourself is that someone might’ve already done the work for you. Long explanation: Spam Karma has a remote blacklist, contributed by other SK users, that you can update periodically to your own. Plus, whatever spam tries to get through on your WordPress blog will get updated to that remote blacklist as well. Short-and-sweet explanation: SK users contribute to a large blacklist, and all can benefit by using it.
In any case, you can use whichever plugin you want - I’m just posting the one I’m using, the one I feel is best for me. Oh yeah, did I tell you to check out podz’s WordPress guide “Tackling Comment Spam“?
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