WordPress Spam

I wasn’t getting a lot of spam on this blog until recently – I guess the URL has entered some kind of “Spam Test Targets: Rookie Level”-list – so I decided to do something about it.

WordPress comes with a spam blocker called Akismet.  By default this plugin is not active.  To activate it you need to register @ wordpress.org.  This gives you a unique API key which you need to enter when activating Akismet.

Since I activated it yesterday it has intercepted 43 spam messages.  Way to go Akismet!

Thanks go to the writer of this list of tools for fighting spam in WordPress.  If Akismet is not enough, check out the other tools mentioned on the site.