Most of my five or so readers won’t care too much about this, but it isn’t every day I come across a piece of software which absolutely amazes me.
WP-SpamFree is a WordPress plugin which “virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots.” So many plugins make such a promise, but using WP-SpamFree has been nothing short of wonderful.
No longer do I log in to my blog to discover 30+ spam emails in Akismet’s quarantine.1 No longer are there hundreds of spam comments each week waiting to be checked at Cloud 9 Lyrics.
WP-SpamFree works, and it works well — so well that I’ve installed it on the five active blogs I maintain. And I’m posting this to recommend to anyone else out there running a self-hosted WordPress blog2 to install it as well. It’ll make your life easier, and it won’t inconvenience your users like some other antispam solutions may!
- Akismet doesn’t actually block any spam; it simply separates posted spam out into a quarantine so that you can check it for false positives and such. In other words, you’re still dealing with the spam. Contrariwise, WP-SpamFree blocks spam at the door. [↩]
- I.e., one that isn’t hosted at WordPress.com. [↩]
