I was trying to think of something clever to title this post. I wanted to somehow tie in SPAM, the meat product, but couldn’t think of anything that would work. So this is what you have - a play on a TV anti-drug campaign. I’m sure somebody will hate me for it.
If you’ve looked at your Wordpress plugins, you’ve probably seen Akismet. It’s one of those default things that gets installed just because. It isn’t setup to go though. You’ll have to activate it and input a code. No worries though because that code is free. All you need is an account at Wordpress.com and you get a free code you can use on all of your Wordpress blogs.
After you’ve done the setup work, all you have to do is wait for pretend-people to start posting comments. If Akismet catches some suspected comments you’ll find them when you login to your blog and check your Comments tab. There will be a new sub-tab called Akismet Spam (0). If something accidentally goes in there, the number won’t be zero anymore and you can mark it as not-spam and rescue it. On the same hand if something goes in there that should, you can delete it. This is very similar to the spam catchers for your email inboxes.
I’ve been using Akismet for a while now. On my personal blog it catches all of those annoying gambling/casino, wonder drug, and pornography comments that seemingly come from nowhere. Another thing to check in the way of comments are your moderation settings. Under Options…Discussion you’ll find some boxes to check or uncheck. I usually have everything selected except requiring an administrator to approve every comment. As long as somebody has already made a comment and I trust them, I’ll allow them to do so again without being moderated. Also, just in case anything unwanted sneaks past, you can always mark a pre-existing comment as spam and/or delete it. If you have any questions feel free to ask. There are other spam plugins out there and I’ll be reviewing some of those in the future.
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