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Reducing spam with captcha


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Old Feb 2, 2010, 11:33 AM
Dids-wp
 
6 posts · Oct 2009
I get loads of spam as replies to my post – nothing new there I suppose – is there a captcha plugin I can use to reduce the amount of spam?

Thanks
D
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Old Feb 2, 2010, 01:23 PM
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7,999 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.5.8/10.6.2 WP 2.8.x/2.9.x/3.0 Atahualpa 3.2/3.3.x/3.4.x/3.5.x Safari 4.0.3 Firefox 3.5.3 XP/I
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i beleive there is, do a google search 'wordpress captcha plugin'
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Old Feb 2, 2010, 08:14 PM
Velma
 
200 posts · Feb 2009
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The Akisment Plugin also takes care of A LOT of spam too. I've also set it up that someone has to have had an approved comment before their comments are automatically posted.

Velma
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Old Feb 3, 2010, 02:47 AM
Dids-wp
 
6 posts · Oct 2009
Hi Velma, I have installed the Akismet plugin and key, let's see if that helps. Thanks. :D
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Old Feb 7, 2010, 06:36 AM
Aerayda
 
5 posts · Feb 2010
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Hi, another popular spam protection plugin for WordPress is WP Spam Free at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/

Sincerely,

David
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 11:58 AM
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65 posts · Jul 2009
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Yeah, wp spam free is really good. Only human or semi-human spam makes it through. On my site (google PR 5 - as I think PR matters most when it comes to spam) I have to delete 2-3 spam per week only (and no annoying captchas). With semi-human I mean this spam were the steal lines of text from websites or write nonsense, like: Great site, I will bookmark it for future reference.
or Thanks for your efforts to create this site. Great work
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Old Feb 20, 2010, 03:25 AM
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DannyLife
 
40 posts · Nov 2009
Haven't used any of the ones above, but this one works fine for me http://www.642weather.com/weather/sc...ss-captcha.php

It simply adds a captcha script to your comment form, you can set it to low so your real users only have to enter a 4 digit easy to see code, totally erased all spam from my sites

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