Protect Wordpress blog against SPAM
By Tyson on Apr 29, 2008 in Blogging Tips, Web Tools
Trying to get my blog back into shape to handle comment and thus comment spam, I am was thrilled to read Michael Martine of Remarkablogger post Create a Comment Blacklist in WordPress - Download My List of Spam Words over at pureblogging.com. In his post, Michael shares his SPAM keywords for you and I to use in our comment blacklist and comment moderation inside WordPress 2.5.
Defensio - Kind of sounds like me trying to speak a foreign language
Michael also bring to light an alternative Comment SPAM defense plugin to the Wordpress included Askimet. Defensio boast that it defends against 99.77% SPAM. More importantly other bloggers,both 1pixel [power by wordpress] and ActiveReload not powered by wordpress, are posting that Defensio is also not as likely to give you that false negative(i.e. trap a non-spam comment).
Full on Defensio Review
Holly over at Woman Tribune wrote a very in depth review of Defensio. If your curiostiy of this new SPAM smacker has been piqued, then I suggest you read her post. But before you do that, go grab that keyword list and add another layer of protection to your blog without consuming many resources from your server.
Holly | May 5, 2008 | Reply
Thanks so much for linking to my review of Defensio here. I really love Defensio, it’s the best spam protection I have seen available for blogs–And I have been blogging for 7 years!