Thank You Akismet
I would like to take a moment to thank one of the best features of WordPress: Akismet. Without Akismet I would have to go through every single spam comment that comes my way, which is a whole lot. I get hundreds of these comment spams per day and it would take me hours to go through them all. Akismet checks the content of the messages against a database of known spammers and automatically filters them out of your comments inbox in WordPress. To give you an idea of how much spam I actually get, here is a screen shot of an Akismet message from within WordPress.
3,825 spam messages caught without me having to even look at it if I didn’t want to! I do scan them over before deleting just to make sure it did not filter a real comment, which has only actually happened twice. Since the time I first had Akismet, only about 5 or so spam messages have slipped through. I am very impressed with their service and would like to thank them.
UPDATE: download Akismet here.
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Wow, neat i’ll give it a whirl. At the moment there was only one day that i received spam, but weirdly that day i received a whole heap of them. Who knows what the spammers are up to
ya that is weird, i think my friend had the same problem ill ask him how to fix it.
thanks for reading
Hey by the way when i post comments i get this:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 438
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:438) in /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 55
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:438) in /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 56
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:438) in /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 57
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:438) in /home/ibdnet/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275
but then weirdly the comment appears anyway…
If it weren’t for Akismet, my site would’ve been consumed by spam a long time ago. It really is a killer tool.
agreed. akismet is essential. see you later!