Wordpress widgits help

Just use Akismet. It's what most people use nowadays and it does a great job of deciphering the spam comments from the legitimate comments.

AKISMET is the answer. It's gr8

I have tried three different spam widget and the default widget Akismet is the one that has won the battle for me.

I recently added the "captcha" plugin by bestwebsoft to a couple of sites that were getting tons of spam sign-ups. Works like a charm. Works for comments too.

Just go to plug-ins, add new and type in "captcha" - it's the first one on the list.

yeah you can use the Captcha and your blog will be spared of comments made by automated bots. Using Captcha plugin along with Akmiset should filter out most of the spam.

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Askimet all the way Pretty great service. The captcha service is a good thing, but stuff like scrapebox can get easily get behind a catpcha, as they offer the possibilty to plug-in a decaptcher account.

I use aksimet for the comment box.

For the contact form, use Contact Form 7 in conjunction with easy captcha.

-Andrew

I have heard that Akismet is the best

AKISMET is good but costs $5 per month. I'm cheap so I just turn on comment moderation on, this way, comments have to be approved, this cuts spam comments by as much as 98%. You can generally tell what's a spam comment. If someone's name is "whatever keywords" and say a comment like "Great blog internet website, I will social bookmark your piece of literature to my RSS Feed". That's total spam.

The idea is not to punish everyone but those who don't contribute anything of value to your site. Another good way to profit from those spammers are to use a plug-in like optin comments. Most emails don't go through but you'd be surprised the amount of emails you can collect that way. I can generally get 0.5% optin rate but last I knew, it only works with un-moderated blogs. I always laugh when I start spamming those spammers, joke's on them

In this case, what I like to do is have a "private" blog. One FFA to collect moron spammers and those who actually READ the blog posts will see that you have a link to a private blog and will go there, just mention that this is a way to combat spam comments. Private WP pages/posts don't get indexed though and most spam software (IE: Scrapebox) can't find them either.

Keep in mind that the more sophisticated tools like Scrapebox will avoid blogs with AKISMET protection and that some users filter out to find "Requires Approval" so they know that their comments are sure to get posted.

The above techniques only apply to self hosted (Wordpress.org) version and won't work with WordPress.com

Hope this helps

GASP should be able to encounter conventional spam bot, I guess if one combine GASP and Akismet, one should be able to encounter spam bot.