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As more and more people find it worth the while to devote their short time here on earth, to develop programs and scripts to automatically add spammy comments on your WordPress blog, I highly recommend installing a few, but very effective, spam catching plugin’s.

The most important, in my opinion, is ”Akismet” followed by ”Bad Behavior” and to complete the collection also ”Bannage”developed by Justin Shattuck.

For some reason, so far WordPress haven’t incorporated any useful way to ban commenter’s by either IP, username or email address. It might be added in a later version, but for now you are left on your own and the mercy of plugin developers.

If you have fallen victim to spam comment entries, with ”Bannage” you can attempt to prevent more spam coming in by blocking specific URI’s, IP addresses, email addresses, or usernames.

Because I run both ”Akismet” and ”Bad Behavior”, it is not very often ”Bannage” come into use. But even “Akismet” and “Bad Behavior” doesn’t always catch 100% of the spam and then ”Bannage” becomes very useful.

To download ‘Bannage’, – go here: http://www.justinshattuck.com

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Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions like Akismet by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

Bad Behavior is working in a completely different way than any ohter spam solution out there. Instead of merely looking at the content of potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the software the spammer is using.

This way, Bad Behavior stop spam attacks even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before.

Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. Whenever possible, you should run it in combination with a more traditional spam prevention service like Akismet.

Installing and configuring Bad Behavior on WordPress is very simple and takes only a few minutes. No configuration at all is needed. Simply turn it on and stop worrying about spam!

To download ‘Bad Behavior’, – go here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/

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Akismet, developed by Matt Mullenweg the founder of Automattic, Inc., is perhaps the most important plug-in on my blogs.

Spam comments is a huge problem with a WordPress blog, but luckily akismet come preinstalled with WordPress. All you have to do, is to activate it and insert your WordPress API. Do not share your API; – It’s like a password.

The names is a contraction of Automatic Kismet, and by installing it, you should never have to worry about spam again. The only other spam plugin you might need is Bad Behavior. In fact you should disable any other spam plugins you might use, as they most likely will reduce the effectiveness of Akismet.

When a new comment is submitted to your site, it is submitted to the Akismet web service as well. Here it will be run through hundreds of tests and return a positive or negative result.

When the plugin detects a spam comment, it saves it in your database for 15 days, so that you have the chance to check it out manually.

The beauty of the system is that it needs no maintenance at all. Just plug it in, insert your WordPress API and you are ready to go.

The plug-in works against spam in any language, so don’t worry if your site is in a non-English language.

Akismet comes with both a license for personal as well as for commercial use. The personal license is free, the commercial comes with a very modest fee.

To download Akismet, – go here: http://akismet.com/download/

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