The world’s most useful Wordpress plugin (English)
April 11th, 2009 Posted in random
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Finally, I found probably the most useful plugin for this Wordpress blog – it’s called SpamFree and you can download it form the Wordpress repository here.
Recently I have seen a very steep increase in the amount of comment spam being entered on barelyadraft, so I have really needed to find a solution to stop it from coming. Sure, Wordpress has the built in Akismet, but all that does it make sure none of the comment spam gets published, and since it’s not 100% I have to weed through the increasing amount of spam only to delete it. The only solution I have seen before SpamFree were CAPTCHA’s – and since I don’t want to annoy every person who wants to leave a message (it’s not like you readers leave too many comments as it is), I needed something else. Something that keeps spam from coming to the site for which I have to waste my time weeding through it and allows legitimate comments to go through without issue! Enter, SpamFree!
I’ll let the creators desribe how it works
Most of the spam hitting your blog originates from bots. Few bots can process JavaScript. Few bots can process cookies. Fewer still, can handle both. In a nutshell, this plugin uses a combo of JavaScript and cookies (on steroids) to weed out the humans from spambots, preventing 99%+ of automated spam from ever getting to your site. Almost 100% of web site visitors will have these turned on by default, so this type of solution works silently in the background, with no inconveniences. There may be a few users (less than 2%) that have JavaScript and/or cookies turned off by default, but they will be prompted to turn those back on to post their comment. (WebGeek, 2009)
Having used SpamFree for the past week or so I have to say, it works as advertised. People still leave comments and probably haven’t noticed anything.
Overall, the few might be inconvenienced because they have JS and cookies turned off will be far fewer than the 100% who would be annoyed by CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions, and other validation methods. (WebGeek, 2009)
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