Dave Hildebrand.com » Akismet http://www.davehildebrand.com The IT Crowd Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:25:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WordPress & Comment Spam Filtering http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/01/23/wordpress-comment-spam-filtering/ http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/01/23/wordpress-comment-spam-filtering/#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:24:57 +0000 Dave http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=41 I am very impressed with the Akismet Spam filtering system that WordPress has integrated into their blogging software.  Recently this blog has gotten quite a bit of spam and Akismet has stopped nearly all of it (99.996%).  I moderate the comments before they are posted here and only 2 of 450+ spam comments were in my moderation list.  I'm not sure why they weren't in the spam folder as they were clearly spam, but I am still thoroughly impressed.

I haven't upgraded to WP 2.1 yet, but I hear that there is an updated version of Akismet included in the update.  Akismet is free for personal use, and if you have a WordPress blog, I urgently recommend using it.

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