Comments on: Spam Protection Solutions for WordPress and Movable Type

By: Hayden Tennent

Hayden Tennent — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:59:05 +0000

The current version of Wordpress comes with the Askimet plugin automatically, which just needs to be enabled. Im using that in addition to a CAPTCHA box plugin called SI CAPTCHA. Im also querying the Project Honeypot blacklist through their Wordpress plugin called http:BL. I have done a review of my progress so far on my own blog at http://www.nztechie.com/the-war-on-wordpress-spam/506/ More recently I have been looking at a plugin called Bad Behaviour which also sounds promising.

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By: TDH

TDH — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:41:15 +0000

Michele and Bryce
Be sure to let us know how it turns out. I’m very curious to see how TypePad AntiSpam will work out in the long run.

Andrew,
That sounds like a good solution. No kinks yet? The same solution should be possible for any form, something I’m sure a lot of people would be interested in.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:39:52 +0000

I’m thinking of using the TypePad solution on my next blog, as I don’t want a Wordpress.com account

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:01:58 +0000

I’ve been using a method on my blog that uses sessions and random form names to prevent automated spam, leaving it to Akismet to catch the manual spam.

I have produced it as a WordPress plugin called Fun with Random Comment Forms.

It seems to be very effective.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:49:24 +0000

We're currently integrating TypePad AntiSpam into 16bugs to filter anonymous comments and bugs. The fact they don't put any limitations on commercial usage is a great plus. It will be interesting to see how it behaves.