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[wordpress4dummies, wordpress blog ,SEO, Articles, Templates, Plugin, Skin, Download, pdf] 5 Useful Wordpress Plugins - SPAM KILLER: Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not. One of the best in the list.
[Search Optimization Marketing] Stop Spam Comment To Your Website: In a recent post at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, Jason Morrison of Search Quality Team at Google tells how to control comment spam:
[New Media Initiatives] Upgrading to WordPress-MU from regular WordPress: It closes comments on old and inactive posts to cut down on spam. It is a little smart, in that it won’t close comments on a “popular” post that has recent activity.
[wordpress Web 2.0 Spot-Er] Comment Spam Filter Comes To Rescue Akismet: While there are many plugins that help you with dealing with Comment Spam I’ve had hardest time finding one that works effectively in combination with WP Super Cache and Akismet. And I have tried multitude of option!
[Boston Media Domain] My Favorite Wordpress Plug-ins: Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.
[Zero to One-Eighty] Spam Karma Released Under GPL: Dave discontinues development of his anti-spam WordPress plugin and licenses the source under the GPL. I’ve been using Spam Karma, and Michael Hampton’s Bad Behavior, on this site for around two years to great effect.
[iseetech.com] In-depth view of Do-Follow and CommentLuv: It is easy to take care of comment spam nowadays because there are a lot of anti-spam plugins available. Plugins such as Askimet and Spam Karma in WordPress and Captcha word verification in Blogger are good examples of Anti-spam.
[Balkhis - Vision for Success] How to Deal with Comment Spam?: Even though most people say Akismet does the job, well it does do a job by reducing the thousands that it had, but if the amount is really high then it gets passed akismet. The situation is so bad on Balkhis that if I don’t login for five hours on wp-admin then I have over 50 spam comments.
[Poker] Hello world!: Next, in your Admin area, choose the Plugins link and “Activate” the “Spam Karma 2”³ plugin. This will help protect your blog from spam.
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[Glass City Jungle] I recently upgraded my wordpress, and a few of you have had your comments marked as spam, I thought I fixed the settings last night, but apparently I did not. I have gone in and “recovered”