Tag: combat spam

As my regular readers know, last month I removed the old CAPTCHA system on commenting (where you have to enter the graphical letters and numbers to post). At that time I activated the Akismet plugin that comes bundled with WordPress to help combat spam. Since that time, Akismet has caught 7,000 spam messages (as of […]

I know people hated the anti-spam image required for entering comments and many times it didn’t even show up. Today I finally got rid of it and put a new system in to help combat spam. This is the Akismet system that actually ships with WordPress and has undergone some recent improvements. The system works […]