All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Bryan, since the release of WP1.5, it has become much much easier to deal w/ Spam. The integrated tools work nicely with an 3rd party plugin or two to catch most of the stuff.

I’ve yet to move to one of those Authenticate scripts that forces a commenter to enter a letter+number combination, but if I get hit badly again, I might move to it…they seem pretty imperviable.

Posted by Ian on 3 April 2005 @ 4pm

Bryan, this post makes me realize that I really need to update my WP. I am so lazy.

Posted by Ria on 3 April 2005 @ 5pm

Ian: I’ll only resort to a comment spam plugin if they get through. I’m glad they haven’t, though. It’d just make for yet another thing I’d have to keep updating. I’ll do whatever I can not to resort to using a Captcha.

Ria: It should take 15-30 minutes, if everything goes smoothly. It’s totally worth it. Totally.

Posted by Bryan on 3 April 2005 @ 5pm

15-30 minutes? Only if you include the upload time…

More like 10 seconds…. …. Okay okay… 5 seconds…

Posted by Anthony on 3 April 2005 @ 9pm

Yeah, I know…just overshooting the time allotment in case anyone else is reading - just to be safe. I wouldn’t want anyone jumping in without that extra time on their hands, if anything goes wrong.

Posted by Bryan on 3 April 2005 @ 9pm

I’ve actually been having some comment spam problems myself lately. The thing that really confuses me is, I also have Wordpress set to ““Comment author must have a previously approved comment”, yet they’re showing up anyway without any interaction by me. Any tips?

Posted by Cards on 4 April 2005 @ 8am

That’s really weird, and I’m not sure. Disable, update, and reenable that option? Maybe the forums might have some insight, because I’m not sure why that’d be the case.

Posted by Bryan on 4 April 2005 @ 12pm