Akismet is fantastic
Spam is a major issue for a lot of bloggers and I’m one of them. I currently run quite a few WordPress based blogs on various topics and niches and although I knew about it I never got around to setting up Akismet. For those of you who don’t know, Akismet is a service which let’s you protect yourself against spam. It is available as a plug-in (comes packed with WordPress as standard) and only needs an API key from WordPress.com to work.
Before setting it up I was getting several hundred spam comments each week – I know this isn’t anywhere near as much as some get but still it was very annoying. A few days ago I thought I’d spend a minute on each of my blogs installing Akismet and since then exactly 0 spam comments have come through.
So I have to say, for all of you who aren’t yet using Akismet on your WordPress blogs – I highly recommend it.
