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Top 10 WordPress Anti Spam Plugins

by David Peralty on March 1st, 2007 13 Comments

While the plugins mentioned in Jonathan Clarke’s top ten list are not what I’d chose as my own, I still think the list has merit, and is worth mentioning.

He mentions some little known plugins as well as some heavy hitters. The list is as follows:

  • Akismet
  • Challenge
  • Referrer Bouncer
  • WPBayes
  • Comment Timeout
  • Email Immunizer
  • ImgProtectr
  • Did You Pass Math?
  • AuthImage
  • WP-Hardened-Trackback

If you want links to these plugins as well as descriptions, please check out his post at Help Net Security.

Categories: WordPress Plugins



Comments

  1. Michael says: 3/1/2007

    Askimet definitely rules the pack. The service has never once failed to work (in terms of relibility, meaning the service was never unavaiable), and their spam fighting algorithm is constantly improving.

  2. Everton Blair says: 3/2/2007

    Problem with Akismet is if you have a large blog, becuase it doesn’t dump the obvious spam it is impossible to find the false positives.

    If you’re looking for good tips to remove spam at source on larger blogs then read these tips

  3. Elliott C. Bäck says: 3/2/2007

    Don’t forget about wp-hashcash!

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  5. Robbert says: 3/9/2007

    great post. I actually thought there was only akismet !

    Thanks again, now even more secure.

  6. About Batik Pictures says: 5/16/2007

    Support Askimet!

  7. Rafael says: 6/1/2007

    Thank you! Hope, i can reduce spam.

  8. Leit says: 6/13/2007

    The best spam protection – premoderation…