The Death of Akismet (WordPress Spam Prevention Plugin)?May 28th, 2006 Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.
Is IP Address Validation of Trackbacks Fraught With Dangers (Large False Positives)?February 5th, 2008 There is a trackback validator plugin which checks if the IP address of the trackbacking server is the same as the URL it is trackbacking for. Is this a valid check or will this result in losing many genuine trackbacks?
This policy in general will work only when you are directly using the authoring interface of the blogging software like WordPress.
How to keep your WordPress 1.5 Blog Spam FreeMay 5th, 2005 Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy.
New horizons in spamming aka SpamBlog ( Rick H needs to be cloned? )February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog!
For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.
Error of Spam Protection by Restricting Comments on Old PostsDecember 7th, 2007 There is a widespread assumption by many bloggers that comments on old posts are mostly spam. There are several WordPress plugins to prevent commenting on old posts, even posts as recent as one month old like, for example, Akismet.
Comment Guard Plugin Updated with New FeaturesAugust 29th, 2007 We have the Comment Guard plugin on all of our blogs with the latest version. Comment Guard is our fool-proof solution to eliminate comment spam from automated bots, which constitute over 90% of comments.
Solving WordPress 1.5.1.2 Trackback and Pingback Sending ProblemsJune 12th, 2005 I was unable to send trackbacks and pingbacks after I tested with WordPress 1.5.1.2. I found the solution yesterday.
Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No SirSeptember 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.
What would be the Features of an Ideal Blog SoftwareJuly 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software?
Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind:
Commenting with:
WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion)
Strong Spam Protection through:
Blacklist
Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?)
Keyword (regex) moderation
IP Banning
Referrer Bouncer
Rule based spam checking
Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols
Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols
Multi-blog-multi-author
SERP optimized
Update:
Blogging with:
WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).
Comment Guard Pro Beta 0.3 ReleasedFebruary 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.
Easily Create & Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs...June 12th, 2008 Any bloggers with multiple WordPress blogs soon realizes the pain and time it costs to maintain the almost identical code base for each blogs when he has to take backups and upgrade his blogs. I was looking at various multi-blog WordPress solutions (not WordPress Mu)...
Comment Guard Pro in Final Stages of DevelopmentNovember 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.
Meta-Review of WordPress Matt's Automattic(sic) Spam StopperOctober 31st, 2005 Matt, author of WordPress blogging software, has released an anti-spam plugin for WordPress - Automattic Spam Stopper (now renamed as AKismet)
Bad Behavior, a competing rather effective comment spam prevention plugin, author nicknamed IOError posted a review which points out some obvious downsides of such centralized spam filtering mechanisms like:
1. Privacy concern - all your comments are send to Matt's server for human inspection
2.
WordPress Comment Spam Protection: Comment Guard Plugin Beta ReleaseFebruary 2nd, 2007 Update: Comment Guard pro has been released. Please check the features here.
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February 7th, 2005 at 1:13 am
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Here’s an interesting article that interviews an anonymous link spammer. Link spammers are people who exploit weaknesses in the web in order to send out thousands of comments on blog sites in particular, in order to promote what they call the PPC sit…