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[Web Design Booth] Wordpress Anti Spam: 12 Great Wordpress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam: When visitors come to your blog, this plugin will first check their IPs, to see whether these IPs exist in the database served by stopforumspam.com, the Project Honey Pot or a local blacklist. By this way, the spammer can be blocked before the content of your site is served.

[Hacking Truths] 43 Excellent Wordpress Security Tips & Plugins: It is suggested to remove any unwanted information to the non-admin for security reasons so it will remove update information about plugins, themes and core update information. Secure WordPress will add a blank index.html to the plug-in directory such that if anyone is trying to view the contents of the directory they will be viewing a blank page instead of the contents.

[Tubetorial] Three WordPress Plugins to Fight Comment Spam | Tubetorial: This is how the plugin’s Options page looks- you’ll need to sign up for two API keys (it’s free at the reCAPTCHA site), and as you can see, you can enable it for comments, or hide it from registered users, and enable it on your registration form, in case you accept signups on your WordPress blog. It also has another feature called MailHide, which helps protect email addresses on your blog- always a good thing.

[Toronto] fight comment spam bots WordPress forums | Toronto: “When registering a user, will compare their data (nickname, IP and mail) with the DB “Stop Forum Spam”. If match any data, then the user is inactive ‘Waiting for Approval’.

[How To Make My Blog] How to stop blog comment spam in Wordpress: Another nasty trick Disqus spammers are now using is to copy the real, intelligent comments on a blog thread and repost them with a link to their junky profile. They are reposting real, highly-intelligent, on-topic comments that you’ve seen before so it’s incredibly easy to let them slip by.

[Solostream] Top 10 Wordpress Plugins 2010 Part One | Solostream: SpamShiv Lite converts any email addresses on your site to code that is not recognized as an email addres. So, for example, michael@solostream.com shows up in the site source code like this:

[Indian Domain Names Forum] Spam Fighters - Indian Domain Names Forum: We see spam in emails, blog comments, forum posts, social media sites etc. Luckily, there are many tools available to help you detect and fight spam.

[WordPress Free Installation] 6 Useful Wordpress Plugins to Prevent Spam | WordPress Free ...: The idea behind this plugin is simple: SPAMBOTs either fill every form field they find (generic spambots) or fill WordPress-specific fields only (spambots which will recognise WP or are targeting WP only). Therefore it is sufficient to add two extra text fields to form (one empty and one with predefined value), and check their values after the form is submitted.

[Lorelle on WordPress] Weekly Digest: Hating Web Hosts, Blog Herald WordPress Wednesdays ...: There are also many WordPress Plugins for images which also offer a variety of thumbnail control and options, including thumbnail sizing. Maybe they were looking for a better way of creating thumbnails on their blog. .... A good comment spam fighting tool like Akismet stops comment spam and trackback spam. By turning off trackbacks, I believe we are letting comment spammers win. Trackbacks continue to be relevant and important elements on the web. Discussions on blog ...

[Art Palaver Artist Marketing Blog] Wordpress Wednesday | Stopping Spam Comments On Your Art Blog ...: Thankfully Wordpress ships with spam protection built in with the plugin “Akismet.” But I know many artists who use Wordpress never get around to activating Akismet because they get confused when it asks for a Wordpress.com API key. What is a Wordpress.com API key and how do I get one?

[TechCrunch] Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It: They are not forced to do so, and if they don’t want to know about what you are offering in terms of value, be it commercial or free, they can just unfollow you, and even block you, so what the hell does twitter SPAM even mean? You can’t send DM’s to people who hasn’t followed you, so you can’t SPAM, as I thought SPAM was supposed to be (a direct, private, unsolicited contact with a call to action for a commercial transaction).

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