Upgrading my blog software took less than 10 minutes, the majority of it backing up my database. However an upgrade wasn’t today’s goal — eliminating blog spam was.
Recently I’ve been getting more and more Spam bots posting home mortgage and penis enlargement comments on my site. Debt consolidation, gambling? Reminds me of that one Chappelle Show sketch. But not any more! After careful analysis of image verification solutions, the kind where you type in and match those goofy pictures (technically called captcha), I decided to go with the non-capcha fix, Automattic Kismet.
Akismet: Anti-Spam Wordpress Plug-in
The Wordpress plug-in, better called Akismet, installed in like two minutes. One minute was spent creating a Wordpress API Key. Super simple! Yes it comes shipped with Wordpress but installing a newer version only needs the uploading of two files. Auf Wiedersehen Spam!
what kind of nerd post is this?
Shit! Didn’t work…the “asshole spam” got through!
goodbye! so long! have fun in the bay area. =)