When I set up this blog, I didn’t change anything, except for installing SEO plugins. A day later, when I opened my mail client, I noticed that there are a lot of mails coming with subject starting with “[gasparik.com]“. In these mails was an information about new comment on my blog. I was so happy that a day after starting my blog I have readers on my blog. But when I readed the mail, I realised that comments aren’t from real people, but from spam bots. There were big ammount of link to different sites in the most of these comments.

These mails were really annoying, so I decided to turn off receiving mails about new comments on my blog. I was happy that my mail client isn’t full of those mails, but when I logged into my wordpress admin a week later, there were 79 pending comments and just one wasn’t spam, but real reaction from satisfied reader.

So I decided to install some anti-spam plugins for my wordpress blog. I typed “spam filter” into Plugin search form and installed some.

There are two different types of anti-spam plugins:

The first type of plugins is captcha plugin. These plugins show random word, or just some letters as an image and blog readers must retype the text in the image in order to post the comment. This is very efficient and useful, but if your blog must look beautiful, you may not like them, because they don’t look so good, the image with text may be too big, etc. The example of this type of anti spam plugins is Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam.

The second type is spam filter. Spam filters automaticly block comments they find to be a spam. They judge comments according to rules, the programmers used. For example, if comment contents a lot of links, it will be blocked and IP it was posted from will be blacklisted. The example of this type of anti spam plugins is WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam.

So select the plugin you find the best and eliminate spams on your blogs.