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Quoting from the Akismet website<\/a> … “Remember the days before spam ?<\/strong>“… Yeah, I know… Nowadays spam is everywhere : in your mail box, on your website, on your blog, on your instant messenger, on your social networking profile, in your online game, on your mobile phone, on your fax, basically everywhere we look on the internet. It has become a constant of our “virtual lives”. The good news is that spam-fighting techniques have also got a lot better.<\/p>\n So what exactly is spam ?<\/p>\n Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. Spam has been around for ever, since 1978 when the first email advertising messages were sent. Since then it has known a continuous increase over the years. It so widely used because it’s economically viable because advertisers have virtually no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and the fact it’s difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.<\/p>\n WordPress Spam<\/p>\n For a regular WordPress blog there are 2 large types of spam :<\/p>\n So what can I do ?<\/p>\n Fortunately there are quite effective ways of eliminating spam from your WordPress blog. We will present below 5 WordPress plugins : 3 for comment and trackback spam, and 2 for contact form spam.<\/strong><\/p>\n Stop Comment and Trackback Spam<\/p>\n Akismet, the first frontier<\/p>\n If you own a WordPress blog, you know what Akismet<\/strong> is. Akismet<\/a>, or Automattic Kismet<\/strong>, is a spam filtering service created by Automattic<\/strong>, the corporation which employs most of the main developers of the weblog platform WordPress<\/strong>, and released on October 25, 2005. Akismet <\/strong>attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings.<\/p>\n Akismet <\/strong>comes already installed with every WordPress <\/strong>blog. All you have to do is activate it from your WordPress Admin page<\/strong>. For the plugin to work it requires an API key<\/strong> which can be obtained by registering on WordPress.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The plugin stats are a testimony of it’s performance. At the time this article was written Akismet plugins from all the WordPress blog caught 6,949,364,430 spam messages, and over 8 million today<\/strong>. On our blog has stopped since the last WordPress update over 24.000 spam comments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Download :<\/strong><\/p>\n Download Akismet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Usage : <\/strong><\/p>\n Defensio<\/p>\n An alternative to Akismet<\/strong> is Defensio<\/a>. No way near as popular as Akismet<\/strong>, Defensio <\/strong>has the advantage of being available for a lot of blogging platforms like : WordPress<\/strong>, Text Pattern<\/strong>, Movable Type<\/strong>, PixelPost<\/strong>, Mephisto <\/strong>etc.<\/p>\n It has a few advantages like :<\/p>\n Note : Only works for WordPress 2.1 or above.<\/strong><\/p>\n Download :<\/strong><\/p>\n Download Difensio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Usage :<\/strong><\/p>\n WP-SpamFree<\/p>\n An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress <\/strong>that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. We use it on this blog in combination with Akismet <\/strong>and I must say it’s excellent. Ever since we installed this plugin, basically we didn’t have spam anymore. In just a few months it managed to stop 15.446 spam comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The really cool thing about this plugin is that it’s not using a CAPTCHA system and also includes an anti-spam contact form.<\/p>\n Download :<\/strong><\/p>\n Download WP-SpamFree<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Usage :<\/strong><\/p>\n Stop Contact Form Spam<\/p>\n We have 2 really cool spam-free contact form plugins for WordPress. The choice between the 2 is yous to make. We use both of them on this blog.<\/p>\n cforms II<\/p>\n cforms<\/a><\/strong> is a plugin for WordPress<\/strong>, offering convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, falls back, however, to a standard method in case AJAX\/Javascript is not supported or disabled.<\/p>\n It has a huge amount of configuration options and comes with 21 custom, different CSS styles for personalization, so it’s pretty easy to adapt it to your blog’s theme.<\/p>\n Demo :<\/strong><\/p>\n A demo can be found on our Submit News page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Download :<\/strong><\/p>\n Download cforms II plugin for WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Usage :<\/strong><\/p>\n Secure and Accessible Contact Form v.2.0WP<\/p>\n This is another really cool spam-free contact form for WordPress<\/strong>. The main differences between the 2 (cforms II<\/strong> and Secure and Accessible Contact Form v2.oWP<\/strong>) are :<\/p>\n This contact form is also highly customizable. It comes with 16 different CSS styles, each one editable.<\/p>\n Demo :<\/strong><\/p>\n You can see a demo of Secure and Accessible Contact Form v2.oWP on our contact page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Download :<\/strong><\/p>\n Download Secure and Accessible Contact Form v2.0WP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Usage :<\/strong><\/p>\n Quoting from the Akismet website … “Remember the days before spam ?“… Yeah, I know… Nowadays spam is everywhere : in your mail box, on your website, on your blog, on your instant messenger, on your social networking profile, in your online game, on your mobile phone, on your fax, basically everywhere we look on […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-design"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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