I’ve been getting slammed recently with spam on all things WordPress related. For a while there, it was subtle. Just a comment or trackback every so often, usually on the same post for a series of days, even weeks. I monitor a lot of the activity, and it’s fairly easy to clean up and block.
That was until I woke up one morning to nearly three hundred of these things. They’re getting better at these things, too. Comments with full sentences that actually convey thoughts across numerous posts. The URLs are getting harder to spot for this crap as well, even if you try to moderate for people posting them into the body of the comments.
I’ve put some lines of defense up while holding my breath. I’ve only been in the WP world for a hand full of months now. This was bound to become a problem at some point. Akismet is my hope for now. Anyone have any success with it? Or might there be something better?
I’ve been using askimet for about 6 months now and I get almost zero spam now. It made a huge difference.
Good call, Jer. Since turning the plugin on, it’s caught almost 1000 spam comments and trackbacks. Nuts, but the damn thing works! 😀