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• Akismet Gets a Facelift

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  20 Billion Served

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  Akismet Launches Partner Program

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• Protect Yourself from Parasite Spam with Akismet

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  How to Identify and Stop Blog Comment Spam

  3445 readersAs a follow up to Jonathan Bailey’s great post yesterday, Blogging Pitfalls: Becoming a Spammer, I wanted to talk about comment spam a bit more.  Bloggers are often inundated with comment spam, which can get so bad that they might even reconsider moderating comments. Unfortunately, there are some forms of comment spam that have gotten out

• Changes Slated For Akismet

  3447 readersJoseph Scott who is working on the Akismet plugin for WordPress notified everyone via the WordPress core development blog that there would be some changes coming to Akismet, starting with version 2.5. In version 2.5 of the plugin, there will be some new files added such as admin.php, akismet,css, akismet.js, and widget.php. There will also

• WordPress Optimization Tip: Close Comment on Older Posts

  12452 readersIf your site is responding quickly and rarely suffers downtimes then I wouldn’t recommend you to turn comments off on older posts, as this removes some of the visitor interaction and also makes your older posts more static. That being said if your site is feeling sluggish lately closing comments on older posts could help,

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  Akismet plugin 2.2.9

  4052 readersVersion 2.2.9 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This version fixes a conflict in 2.2.8 that could potentially lead to spurious spam or ham reports on blogs that use other spam filtering plugins in conjunction with Akismet. The conflict does not affect accuracy, but may in some circumstances cause incorrect stats. Users