I never really thought that running spam plugins was necessary on a site that doesn’t get too much traffic (maybe one day…). But after I switched to this new theme, I decided to add the Akismet widget to the sidebar to show how many spam comments have been blocked by it.
And, crazy enough as it is, it has blocked over 5000 spam messages on this little blog. That’s pretty incredible considering the traffic this blog usually receives. Goes to show how many automated tools out there are beating up sites with automatic comment posting…
Decided against
Akismet for now basically because I’m lazy and installing it requires going to a page and filling something out then getting a key and yada yada yada so I just blew it off and found a different plugin to block spam. Supposedly it blocks 99% of all automated spam.
WP-Spamfree
I’ve actually installed a shitload of plugins that I decided would make me the greatest blogger the world has ever seen so I’m planning on putting together a post that lists them all and their function and why I justified installing them. Probably throw that up here this weekend.
WP-Spamfree is easy, just download it from the link above, upload the zip file into your Wordpress plugins folder, uncompress it, go to the plugins page in your Wordpress blog, click activate next to WP-Spamfree, and it supposedly just works.
We’ll see if those Canadien web hosting bastards can get to me now.
It has happened. Getting spammed on day 3. Here am I, waking up to an email saying I have a new comment, stoked like no other because people like me, and it’s an ad for Canadian Web Hosting. While they might have gotten me if I lived in Canada, I instead live in one of farthest American cities from Canada. Good try you web hosting Canuck.
So how am I going to stop this spamminess? Well I am going to install
Akismet. It’s a
spam blocker for this here
Wordpress thing. I don’t have the time to install it right now, but tonight I will so I will do it and take some screenshots and write up a little tutorial on how to do it.
In the meantime, if you’re in the mood for any web hosting north of the border, go ahead and get clicky on that link in the comments of my first post.
Seriously though, don’t click it.
Seriously.