Articles Tagged 'spam'

To Fight Spam With Akismet Or With An Alternative?

 Posted in: PluginsWordPress • Written by: Sufyan bin Uzayr • December 3rd, 2011

Akismet is one of the most popular anti-spam measures for WordPress in particular and many other CMSes/platforms in general. The Akismet plugin is bundled with the official WordPress install by default, and it is one of the most reliable solutions when it comes to fighting spam.

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Fight with Spam: 15+ Free Captcha Solutions

 Posted in: Freebies • Written by: Siva Kumar • June 12th, 2010

A 'Captcha' (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart) is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human or a spam bot. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions by spam bots, which are automated scripts that post spam content everywhere they can.It usually involves an image showing some distorted text, requiring the user to type in what they see in the distorted text.

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33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

 Posted in: PluginsWordPress • Written by: Dainis Graveris • September 30th, 2009

As always I am trying to mix up topics I cover and this can be considered as continue to previous article. Last time we got inspired and examined many good blog comment form examples, but this time I went further and found 33 Wordpress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security. If programming is not your strongest side, then such automatized plugins will be irreplaceable for your blog! If you know some more effective comment form plugins, feel free to add them in our comment section! For the next time I am thinking about Wordpress comment section hack roundup article, so stay with us!

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