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  How to Identify and Stop Blog Comment Spam

  3207 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

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  Akismet Worst Offenders Extension

  3 readersNow even plugins are getting plugins, as Richard Boakes adds onto Akismet, a powerful and popular anti-comment spam plugin for WordPress and other software. The extension, allows for users to easily see and delete mass groupings of spam easily. It shows you the worst offenders, IP Addresses of computers sending you the most spam, and allows

• WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/25

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  WordPress hack: Get rid of HTML in comments

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• Changes Slated For Akismet

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• WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/28

  17301 readersNew plugins Bulk Remove Comments allows you to remove all pending comments from your database with one click. WP-NOTCAPTCHA adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, or both. In order to post comments, users will have to range icons in right (upright) place. Updated plugins Amazon Tools allows you to display Amazon product information

• How To Mimic The WPTavern Commenting System

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  Wrongfully Flagged As Spam By Akismet?

  2 readers For the past few days I’ve had some real trouble trying to comment on other blogs. I would make a comment, and it would seem like nothing happened. No “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” message would show up. Same story even with blogs I’ve had previously approved comments on. I started to suspect