WordPress 2.02
I decided to take my recent comment / trackback spam issues as an opportunity to upgrade Wordpress from 1.5 to the latest version (2.02) and try the new Akismet anti-comment-spam plugin that is included in the release.
Comments are re-enabled for now. Let’s see how this goes… Either way, the upgrade was worth it. The WordPress 2.02 admin interface looks a lot more modern and polished, and I look forward to exploring some of the new themes and plugins.
Update: So far so good. Akismet already caught over 200 spam comments / trackbacks in the 11 hours since I installed it…
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:25 pm
I love the new WP. It catches everything, and I’ve never found a false positive yet.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Yes, I’ve been very happy with it so far. A few spam comments have slipped through, but most of the spam that isn’t caught by Akismet ends up in the moderation queue, where I can manually deal with it.
I haven’t noticed any false positives, but then again that would be very difficult, as I’ve been receiving several hundred spam comments per day for the past few days…