I’m bringing back WP-SpamFree

Posted November 19th, 2009. Categorized under Site Related. 7 Comments

I’ve been getting progressively more spam comments lately, and I think it’s time I reactive WP-SpamFree, a WordPress plugin that helps cut back on spam. I used it earlier, but I heard that a couple of comments from legitimate readers were labeled as spam by it.

However I’m going to try again and see if things work out a bit better this time. If you find that your comments are being labeled as spam or blocked, kindly use the Contact page to inform me so that I can disable the plugin if necessary.

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7 Replies to “I’m bringing back WP-SpamFree”

Comments:

1. Liam McIvor Martin

November 20th, 2009 8:54 am

How much crap do you get? I usually get 3 pieces of spam for every ‘real’ comment.

2. Paul

November 20th, 2009 12:55 pm

@Liam: I’m getting about that, but a lot of spam was getting into the normal inbox which just becomes a pain.

3. mark from Bunn Coffee Filters

November 20th, 2009 2:28 pm

Thank you very much for putting in the info about contacting you directly if your comment gets spammed. I comment regularly on a handful of blogs, and from time to time, some of my comments will get blocked, even though I am a regular. I do feel you about spam comments though because they are so annoying!

4. david from mini laptops

November 27th, 2009 8:03 am

No, paul please have this spam filter always enabled. Because this will eat away lot of your productive time. I suggest you try akismet.com which is the powerful spam filter in the planet.

5. Paul from CLEP

November 29th, 2009 4:19 pm

Paul, I hate spam as much as you. On one of my blogs I recently I found about 100 comments on an older post that had accumulated some pagerank. Luckily I had just install WP Hashcash. I highly recommend it. It works with Akismet to provide a very lethal punch to almost all automated spam.

6. James from Sleep Insomnia

December 15th, 2009 12:54 am

I use Akismet and it is good. The only reason why you don’t want to use Akismet is if you are afraid WordPress may spy on you….

7. Paul

December 16th, 2009 11:47 am

@James: I use Akismet, but it’s not really enough.