Akismet is fantastic!
A few months ago, I began to receive spam comments here on my blog. At first, it was only one or two..but that quickly became ten or so per day. I decided to activate the built-in Akismet plugin for Wordpress, and it turns out to have been one of the best decisions I’ve made. This is the message I got when I logged in today:
Akismet has protected your site from 1,062 spam comments.
I highly recommend this plugin to anyone on Wordpress!
August 27th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
[...] Back in May, I made a post called “Akismet is fantastic!” That was back when Akismet had blocked a mere 1,062 spam filled comments. Today, I’m reaching the 14,000 mark. I post about this today, because yesterday Akismet introduced a bug in their statistics update that caused over 150 of them to not be filtered for me. My inbox was full — luckily 1) WordPress makes it incredibly easy to mark these as spam and move on and 2) They fixed the bug very quickly. Again, I never realize how wonderful it is until I’m without it for a few hours… I have added the Akismet spam counter on the bottom of the right column for fun. [...]