Thu 1 Nov 2007
1st SPAM Comment
Posted by Curtis under Geek Stuff, Site News
I recieved my first spam comment last night. I wasn’t going to mess around with that business so I quickly turned on the akismet plugin that comes pre-installed with wordpress. If you sign up for a free account at wordpress.com (a wordpress blog hosting site, not the wordpress official site) then you get an “API” key that allows you to turn on and use the akismet plugin which is suppose to do a good job filtering out spam, we’ll see how it goes.
Here’s some stats:
Akismat has blocked
November 9th, 2007 at 9:01 am
How did you get that sweet "spam comments" counter? www.eric-martin.com
November 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Using the akismat plugin for wordpress it supplies you with the one line of php code that calls a function that outputs that spam counter box. You can put that php function call anywhere of course. For now I just have it in the blog entry but I think I’m going to add it to my theme somewhere.