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01/08/08
WordPress 2.3.2 and spam protection
The latest WordPress, 2.3.2, frustrates me. It used to be where I could add any plug-in and it would work just fine. A few weeks ago after I upgraded to 2.3.2 I noticed that many of my more interesting plug-ins no longer worked, such as the comment preview plug-in, a few Flickr photo plug-ins, etc. After trying to get them to work on my own without success, I simply de-activated them.
I’m not sure if removing the comment preview plug-in was helping, but now I am getting more comment spam than ever from bots. I’ve tried a few plug-ins documented on the WordPress spam plug-ins page, but nothing seems to really work with 2.3.2. I have tried Did You Pass Math? which did not work (generated an error upon activation), Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin which also did not work (showed the form, but did not enforce the math), as well as Ajax Comments which changed nothing.
I’m not a bozo when it comes to this stuff, or at least I don’t think I am. I am a web developer by profession. I understand PHP and how WordPress works, and all I know is that it’s not working very well these days. I have a ton of plug-ins that I have de-activated because they no longer work with this update.
Is anyone else having problems with WordPress? I am using Akismet for spam protection which works great, but I still have to delete a lot of spam marked as suspect at the end of the day and I’m hoping another plug-in like a math or CAPTCHA question will help.
Chris I didn’t have an issue until I updated to the latest version of WP. Once I logged in, I had 15 spam comments in que. Up until that point, I had maybe 5 a week maybe.
I just came across this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/
I wonder if it works – time will tell I guess.
Hey Chris,
I installed Bad Behavior last night and I have been Spam free (even Akismet hasn’t seen any) in 24 hours. There were 116 attempts blocked – so far so good.
Try it out!