Comments on: The single most important WordPress plugin you will ever need

By: Acro

Acro — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:02:00 +0000

Michael – sadly, not until the early 90′s.

Mike – it works wonders.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:13:37 +0000

“These blind spambots released their scummy digital farts into the air, never reaching the DomainGang.com database. Not a single false positive!”

LMAO.

I may have to try out WP-Spam Free, thanks

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:26:28 +0000

Acro, You sent the first email in late 80′s, but when did you get your first spam?

By: Acro

Acro — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:52:43 +0000

Samit, while akismet blocks a lot of spam outright, it sends a lot of it to the spam queue. WP-Spamfree doesn’t allow any spam to make it through; it never enters the queue.

By: Samit

Samit — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:47:14 +0000

I use akismet for filtering both, comments and site emails.

Works like a charm.

All you need a working api key which is free with any wordpress.org account.

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:33:51 +0000

Expensive Domain – While an SEO plugin is useful – and I do use the particular one – your sanity does not depend on it, you can still be found.

Shay – You’re welcome and do share your finds after you test it.

NeazMH – The problem is that a lot of people don’t want to use their facebook/twitter/etc identities to post, so you’d be cutting down on the number of comments accepted.

By: Expensive Domain

Expensive Domain — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:42:39 +0000

The most important plugin is got to be the All in One SEO plugin because without this, you wouldn’t be found and thus you wouldn’t even have to worry about spam!

By: Shay

Shay — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:09:40 +0000

Great find Acro, I’m downloading and installing this right away! I have enough trouble with email spam, it takes up at least 5-6 minutes a day sifting through those… this will save a lot of time.

I agree, turning comments off isn’t exactly a good solution. That would be the same as having an email address that didn’t accept email.

Anyway, excellent find and I’ll be very grateful if this works for me.

By: NeazMH

NeazMH — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:15:06 +0000

If you can use Disqus in association with akismet, then you will be done with 99% of the protection.

By: Acro

Acro — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:30:42 +0000

Owen, turning comments off defeats the purpose of having an interactive blog As for using Blogger, I did that years ago at Blogspot. The platform is far inferior to WordPress.