Eric asked me this in my comments and as I just found out on his page too so I thought I’d post about it, why not.

If you’re running wordpress, or any CMS for that matter that supports comments you need some type of automated system to sort out spam comments. Everybody wants to have the freedom of letting their guests use anonymous comments but when you do that the flood gates are opened to spam comments getting posted.

The default installation of wordpress includes the akismat plugin which will remove these comments for you. Just login to the admin panel and activate it!

Eric was asking how to display the spam counter, it’s just one line of php as a function call. If you want it to show in a post you’ll need to install a plugin for wordpress that allows you to execute php in posts. I use exec-php .

Then just insert the following line:

<?php akismet_counter(); ?>