Engwar » comment spam http://engwar.com Chintana Wilamuna's weblog Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Eliminating comment spam http://engwar.com/post/59?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eliminating-comment-spam http://engwar.com/post/59#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:37:35 +0000 Chintana http://engwar.com/?p=59 Continue reading →]]> Lately, comment spam has been a big problem and I was sick of clearing around 15 – 20 or so spam comments that wordpress catches. Some of them escapes and was getting published. I knew about Akismet but the problem with that is you have to get an account on wordpress.com and give the API key. Annoying.

I’ve used re-captcha in the past but it creates more problems than it solves. Often times I find it frustrating if I have to go through a captcha which is unreadable. Sometimes you get it wrong several times and lose the interest to comment and you just go away.

During my quest for a world with zero spam without any captchas, I stumbled on the awesome WP-SpamFree plugin. Zero comment spam so far! w00t. Rock on Scott!

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