Optimus Pete » plug-ins http://tech.petegraham.co.uk yes i love technology Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:06:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Death to Spammers! http://tech.petegraham.co.uk/2007/04/12/death-to-spammers/ http://tech.petegraham.co.uk/2007/04/12/death-to-spammers/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:09:11 +0000 Pete http://tech.petegraham.co.uk/2007/04/12/death-to-spammers/ I’ve starting getting lots of Spam comments on my blogs recently. This was becoming increasing annoying because each time someone comments on my blog I get sent an email. Not only were the comments sections, on some of my articles, full of viagra advertisements but my inbox was also full of notification about these comments.

I decided to install the Spam Karma plug-in in an effort to thwart the irritating bots that were making these comments. Since installing it (about 2 weeks ago) I think it has successfully caught each spam post to this site, and set it for moderation. It rarely seems to identify real comments as spam (let me know if one of your comments goes missing). As a Spam prevention plugin it works very well.

Spam Karma is incredibly configurable, the downside of this is its interface isn’t very intuitive. It does appear to have some options for moderating your existing comments, but after having very limited success with this I decided to delete the offending comments manually. This is just a small complaint thought and if you do start getting Spammed on your Wordpress blog then I would suggest installing this plug-in ASAP.

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# Pete Graham

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