WordPress is almost undoubtedly the most popular blogging software that you can install on your own website. With that position at the top – there is the possibility of exploitation of a lot of vulnerabilities; especially with being an open source application. If you happen to run a website with a wordpress blog installed. There are different ways of preventing your WordPress blog from becoming the target of spam and abuse. Which method you use will depend on a number of factors.
Well some of few tools that you can use to fight agains WordPress Spam.
- Akismet – a very popular plugin which comes by default with wordpress. To use it, you need to signup for a wordpress acount and get an API key for your website.
- Defensio – A wordpress plugin that helps you filter your comments and also provides rss feed for both accepted and ‘spammed’ comments.
- Simple CAPTCHA – Adds turing text to your comment area to eliminate automated comments
- Challenge – Adds a challenge to your comments area, the regular stuff being additions and multiplications
- Referrer Bouncer – You don’t need to do anything to use it. Just activate it.
- Email Immunizer – Simply converts all your emails on your website to numeric references to prevent email colecting
- WPBayes – Implements the spam filtering with the Naive Bayesian technique, which means it marks the comments as spam or not based on your previous decisions. To be honest, I didn’t use this one
- Spam Karma 2 – This one assigns a karma score based on multiple factors like the age of the post, the email, if there’s a link inside, etc, etc.
- WP Spam Hitman – It fights agains wordpress spam using a series of patterns. That’s all I know about it, please test it and let me know if it’s a good one.
- Did you pass Math – Does the same thing as the one at point.
