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[The Inner Light | The Other World of Hybridesign] 7 WordPress Anti Spam Plugins: It requires no upfront configuration and no mod-rewrite. It is like the strong silent bouncer at your favorite club and it works well.

[Capturing Blog] Wordpress Plugins/Spam Tools: If a human visitor is accidentally marked as spam by RK, he will still be allowed access your site via a link provided by RK’s custom 403 (access denied) page and the falsely-marked referrer can be whitelisted. Referrer Karma is technically a PHP script, so it will work under all configurations, but some assembly is required.

[Rick's Rants and Raves] A New Referrer Spam: There was more to the URL at the end, but I assumed that the last bits were just for tracking who gets clicks through, kind of like embedding a special code in a graphic so that they know you viewed their spam e-mail. If someone clicks through, their site will suddenly be on the list of “suckers”

 [livingwithmusic.com] Wordpress: Spam Magnet: And that’s when I realized the most depressing thing about all of this spamming frenzy: Many of my users, just like I myself do, have turned their browsers and e-mail programs into solid fortresses with walls as thick as lead, trying to stem the flow of spam and intrusions floating their way. They surf around with just about everything disabled, they have solid spam filters installed, pop-ups and whatnot blocked, they use proxy servers to surf around the Net, they are wary of anything they have to type aside from a comment and simply jump ship if a window pops up which asks them to enter something to prove they are human.

 [Cuzoogle] Off the hook WordPress plugins: So I decided to put together a list of plugins I am using now and ones I want to try out in the future. If there is one not on the list that you think would be great to try please let me know.

[dokuwiki] plugin:badbehaviour - new release: This can cause innocent users to be blocked because their dynamic IP address was used by some spam bot before. If you don't want to use this check you can skip it:.

[Virtual Hosting Blog] No More Comment Spam! 46+ Free Tools and Resources to Stop Blog ...: This is perhaps the most comprehensive list of spam fighting tools I have seen yet. Very nicely done and thanks for taking the time compile it.

 [The fantastic site of Lord Matt] How to beat blog spammers and their spam - a guide: Given that the domain in question producess so few impressions that Google counts as valid this has to be a bad spam run. Comments are off so this bot must be spoofing the referrer because it seems to be convinced that it comes from the .

[D' Technology Weblog] Comment Guard Pro WordPress Plugin: After a looong build test, Angsuman has released “Comment Guard Pro”, much awaited plugin, which is a complete comment spam protection.

 [Mary Robinette Kowal] My plugins: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com

 [Midas Oracle .ORG] The Best Blogging Software (WordPress) + The Top 60 WordPress Plugins: You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted.

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