At the beginning of your WordPress, there is great possibility of receiving spam. Receiving unwanted comments when starting a blog can have that traffic could be scary for beginners. For this reason they do not have access to prevent spammers from reading our blogs. In just a minute of your blog can be carried by thousands of comments. This article introduces 6 plugins proved helpful in WordPress that is available to help combat and eradicate spam.
yaCAPTCHA
It is CAPTCHA designed a plugin for WordPress, which helps block spam from automated bots reviews. So if you submit comments, users have to write the characteristics of a given image. It is planned for the automated programs that is difficult to decipher the characters, a great help in preventing spam comments.
These are the requirements to have their computers yaCAPTCHA: WordPress 1.5 or higher, PHP 4.0.6 or higher, with the support of the GD2 library, theme should support 'comment_form' action.
Trackback Spam Resources
A very simple test ero effective in all links in order to stop spam. TrackBack Validator, a plug for WordPress that are sent by the comments on his weblog that accompanied by a URL that points to that comment. Spam TrackBacks accompanied by a URL pointing to a pay-per-click Affiliate Web Site or irrelevant material. Validator exploit this key difference:
1. When a trackback is received, the plugin retrieves the web page located at URL included in the trackback.
2. If the page contains a link to your weblog, approving the trackback.
3. If the page does not link to your blog, trackback is flagged as spam and rejected.
TrackBack because spammers do not provide personalized Web pages with links to blogs that attack, this simple test will reveal Trackbacks quickly illegitimate.
WP-SpamFree and Trackback Validator
A very powerful anti WordPress plugin that eradicates comment spam, perform well in removing trackback and pingback spam. That works invisibly without CAPTCHA, or other inconvenience to site visitors. The plug-in includes free spam contact form feature as well.
Features
1. It is completely free for both commercial and personal use.
2. The beauty of this plugin is the spam blocking methods. It takes a different approach than most and stops spam at the door.
3. Trackback powerful and pingback spam protection.
4. It functions as a firewall to ensure that their comments are actually human. Virtually eliminates the robots comment spam.
5. It has a counter on your dashboard to keep track of all spam is blocking. The numbers show the effectiveness of this plugin is.
6. Includes drop-in-spam free contact form. Easy to use – no configuration necessary.
7. No false positives, leading readers less frustrated and less work for you.
8. You do not have to waste valuable time navigating through the queue of spam again, because there not much, anyway.
9. Easy to install – truly plug and play. Simply upload and activate.
10. The code has an overhead of very low bandwidth and will not curb his blog (access to databases very light), unlike some other anti-spam plugins.
11. Fully compatible with all cache plugins, including WP Cache and WP Super Cache. Not all anti-spam plugins can say that.
12. Show the statistics of your spam blocking on his blog.
13. Helps keep your database leaner and more efficient.
14. WordPress MU works too.
Invisible Defense
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This add specializes in the protection of registration, username and comment forms from spambots, adding two additional fields hidden by CSS. This approach gave me 100% anti-spam on one of my sites.
The idea behind this plugin is simple: either spambots fill every field the form found (spam bots generic) or fill specific areas only WordPress (WP spambots to recognize or addressed to WP only). Therefore, sufficient to add two additional texts form fields (one empty and one with default value), and check their values once sent the form. 1st field (vacuum) is generic occupied by spam bots and 2 shall not be filled by WP guidance only spambots. With these two simple controls probably all spambots can be detected easily, so you can re-WP error "403 Forbidden" for them.
These two extra fields are hidden with the CSS rule, so it will not be visible to most users. Only users with text-based browsers (and the very old that does not support CSS) is seen. Invisible Defense also shows number Spammers blocked from the Dashboard, so you can see that actually works.
Akismet
Akismet Plugin is possibly the most important and useful never installed. It was developed by the real team behind WordPress, if that's not enough of a seal of approval and a guarantee not know what it is. In short words, Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not, and lets you review the spam it catches under "Your Blog Comments" administration screen.
Requires WP2.0 or higher and is compatible with WP 2.8.4.
Maximum security for WordPress
Maximum security for WordPress is full of strong protection that makes sure your site. It guards against intrusion, tracks of a large number of events, blocks malicious content could harm your readers and your ranking in search engines and includes a Web application firewall strong along with a full blown system of prevention intrusion, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. No other security plugin for WordPress comes anywhere close to matching the features of this powerful tool.
Stace Zimmerman is an Internet Marketer who owns & maintains many websites online. Please visit this site for WordPress themes and other blogging information. He also runs a hoodia information site.
Askimet Plugin for WordPress Blogs – Reviewing Website Comments