Wordpress Anti Spam
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Just a brief post to say that I’ve added an extra thing for my comments as I was getting fed up with the amount of spam comments.
I’ve already installed Akismet but that still means having to go through the comments and check that a real one hasn’t been trapped.
Peter’s Custom Anti Spam Image Plugin for Wordpress works a treat. It’s easy to install and there’s an extra “captcha” word to type in that a real human will have no problem with. You can add your own words to the list, just being careful to make sure that they’re not too long (no more than 6 or 7 letters).
The only thing missing is an audio equivalent so that visually impaired people can get the word spelled out for them. I’ll be on the lookout for that.
If you’re running a Wordpress blog, this is a “must have” plugin. Get it for free from here.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Thanks for the post. What you could do is create a series of mp3 files with numbers corresponding to the word list. Then, stick them all in a folder and have the image link to them. Yeah, I know, I should really provide a framework for this. But hey, these things take years for amateur coders like me!
October 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Image captcha’s are fairly easy to break these days. Google “captcha security” and you’ll find some good info about it. I wrote a tutorial on a numbers captcha which you might be interested in though:
http://robmalon.com/howto-eliminate-wordpress-trackback-comment-and-pingback-spam/
In short, it creates an equation to be answered instead of an image which can be read and reproduced verbatim. Give it a try if you’re still having problems. And drop by and leave a comment with questions if you need help with it. Not sure what version of wordpress you’re using here.