Top 10 WordPress Anti Spam Plugins

This is my personal "must have" WordPress anti-spam plugins. They'll help you a lot. The one I like the most is the first one in the list.

Here we go:

1. Akismet - a very popular plugin which comes by default with WordPress. To use it, you need to signup for a WordPress acount and get an API key for your website.

2. Defensio - A WordPress plugin that helps you filter your comments and also provides rss feed for both accepted and 'spammed' comments.

3. Simple CAPTCHA - Adds turing text to your comment area to eliminate automated comments

4. Challenge - Adds a challenge to your comments area, the regular stuff being additions and multiplications

5. Referrer Bouncer - You don't need to do anything to use it. Just activate it.

6. Email Immunizer - Simply converts all your emails on your website to numeric references to prevent email collecting

7. WPBayes - Implements the spam filtering with the Naive Bayesian technique, which means it marks the comments as spam or not based on your previous decisions. To be honest, I didn't use this one

8. Spam Karma 2 - This one assigns a karma score based on multiple factors like the age of the post, the email, if there's a link inside, etc, etc.

9. WP Spam Hitman - It fights against WordPress spam using a series of patterns. That's all I know about it, please test it and let me know if it's a good one.

10. Did you pass Math - Does the same thing as the one at point #4.
Well, I think 10 tools are enough to keep you away from spam comments. Test them and use the one(s) you like the most.

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