I am looking for recommendations on any decent CAPTCHA plugins for WordPress to alleviate comment spam.
If you are using something and are happy with it, I’d appreciate a post.
Thanks! Now, here comes the spam …
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18 Responses to “WordPress CAPTCHA recommendations?”
I’ve been using Akismet for about a month now. It’s nice to be able to switch over to the spam at my leisure to delete it all in one fell swoop. I haven’t been making too many posts lately, so comments are below average, but there haven’t been any false positives yet.
Akismet is the greatest thing in the world. Can’t say enough about it. Turn it on and forget it. I was getting totally hammered by spam comments. A couple dozen a week minimum. Sometimes ten times that if someone was on a campaign. I had approval on so they never made it live, but it was a pain in the neck always deleting them. Now I get maybe one a week that sneaks through. At first I was checking Akismet daily to make sure it wasn’t blocking any real comments, but never found any. Now I just don’t think about it
Oh, I also turn on the option to approve new comment posters. That way you do catch the occasional one that Akismet misses. Once someone has an approved comment though, any further comments by them are automatically approved.
Seemse like the newest version of WP is way more vunerable for spam. I´ve been using spam karma for 02 weeks and Im pretty satisfied with the results, no spam has passed the system watch yet.
I use Bad Behaviour (http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior) *and* Akismet to great effect – The former’s blocked over a thousand access attempts in the last week, and the ones that do get through have (so far) all been stopped by Akismet. BB installs like a normal plugin, no need for code modifications.
Spam is everywhere now… did you guys ever try blocking IPs, and were there any associated issues with that. It seems like mine are mainly coming from two IPs, but I dont want to inadvertently block legitimate readers.
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May 8th, 2006 at 10:47 am
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools#Captcha
it’s would help
May 8th, 2006 at 10:49 am
I know about:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools#Captcha …
I am looking for feedback on what people are actually using before I go and install some plugin that is unsupported or not very good.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I’ve had a huge increase in the past week on spam comments and was wondering the same thing today. I’m curious what people have actually tried out.
Today I turned on the Akismet plugin that comes with WordPress to see if it helps at all.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Hmm. I’ll take a look … didn’t know that one was preinstalled … thought it was pay for use. Might be worth a try.
May 8th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I’ve been using Akismet for about a month now. It’s nice to be able to switch over to the spam at my leisure to delete it all in one fell swoop. I haven’t been making too many posts lately, so comments are below average, but there haven’t been any false positives yet.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Akismet is the greatest thing in the world. Can’t say enough about it. Turn it on and forget it. I was getting totally hammered by spam comments. A couple dozen a week minimum. Sometimes ten times that if someone was on a campaign. I had approval on so they never made it live, but it was a pain in the neck always deleting them. Now I get maybe one a week that sneaks through. At first I was checking Akismet daily to make sure it wasn’t blocking any real comments, but never found any. Now I just don’t think about it
May 9th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Oh, I also turn on the option to approve new comment posters. That way you do catch the occasional one that Akismet misses. Once someone has an approved comment though, any further comments by them are automatically approved.
May 9th, 2006 at 4:27 am
Akismet seems like the way to go. It has been enabled.
Thanks for all the feedback.
May 9th, 2006 at 5:32 am
Yeah, so far through one day I’ve had 60 or so spam comments caught by Akismet. I should have turned it on sooner.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Yep. Seems to work like a charm. Perhaps it should be a default!
May 12th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Seemse like the newest version of WP is way more vunerable for spam. I´ve been using spam karma for 02 weeks and Im pretty satisfied with the results, no spam has passed the system watch yet.
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
May 12th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Thanks Luciano. I’ll check it out.
I’d say: Muchas Gracias … but my last translation from Spanish to Portuguese didn’t fly … so I’ll stick with English.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I use Bad Behaviour (http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior) *and* Akismet to great effect – The former’s blocked over a thousand access attempts in the last week, and the ones that do get through have (so far) all been stopped by Akismet. BB installs like a normal plugin, no need for code modifications.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:54 am
I’m using http://nio.infor96.com/archives/369 – Anti Spam Image 0.5 plugin without any problems. Recommended!
November 21st, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Hi Scott. Captcha is well approximately spam scripts, but not against human more spammer.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Hi,
I use CapCC and Akismet to keep my blogs spam free. CapCC is a WordPress Captcha plugin that displays Captcha for registration and/or comments. Let me know if you like it.
-Fuctweb
June 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Spam is everywhere now… did you guys ever try blocking IPs, and were there any associated issues with that. It seems like mine are mainly coming from two IPs, but I dont want to inadvertently block legitimate readers.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Thank you for this information.