Updated wordpress
June 13th 2006 -
I got really sick of the spam on anotherblog. You don’t see it, but I get about 50 bits of comments spam a day. All mail from a not-previously-accepted commenter, or a commenter who puts a link in the email, gets put in for hand-moderation. I have to trawl through the spam to make sure there isn’t an actual new commenter there, or an old commenter using a different email address.
Recently, I’ve been getting trackback spam, which is even worse: I used to set my posts to allow trackbacks (that’s when another website references one of my posts), and those get automatically added to the list of comments. So some spammers have been using that to get around the hand-moderation. Shits me to tears. I get really irate when spam appears on otherleg, even if only for a few hours before I spot and delete it. So I decided it was time to increase my spam protection.
First step: upgrade wordpress to 2.0.3. This proved pretty easy, happily. Let me know if you have any problems with it – eg. content is especially boring, or you dislike the colour blue. Then, install and run Akismet and Bad Behaviour.
So far, so good.