I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet’s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable [...]

Posted April 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: akismet, recheck, spam, workaround. Be the first one.

I awoke this morning to a bit of a mess. After enjoying months of spam-free bliss thanks to Akismet, I found over a hundred spam comments for pills and free pictures to suit most any need or desire. Spam has snuck through before, but never in this volume, and Akismet has always been quick to [...]

Posted August 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: akismet, customer support, matt mullenweg, spam, support, user relations, user support. 3 Comments.

I’ve been getting spam, a lot of spam; 3400 spam comments and trackbacks in the last two months or so. So it was a relief to find Akismet, a networked spam blocking plugin for WordPress. They claim to have blocked 318,825 spams since its release, and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

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Posted November 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: akismet, comment spam, spam, spam a lot, spam blocking, spams, trackback spam, wordpress. Be the first one.