Spamfree WordPress Spam Plugin

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 at 1:47 am

security to help add an additional barrier to your WordPress blog, reducing the amount of spam.

WP-SpamFree

WP-SpamFree security is a great WP plugin to add to your arsenal to help keep automated spam bot blog comments, trackback and pingback including spam. This plugin locked a record. "Additionally, the updated version that provides a filter blacklist, where everything that matches a string hangs.

Some key features include:

Strong protection against spam (which functions as a firewall)
A counter board instruments for monitoring of all spam blocked
Typical Uses minimal bandwidth and works silently in the background

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

A CAPTCHA (completely automated public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an additional layer of protection commonly seen on many blogs and websites (not just WordPress).

Normally, a CAPTCHA is used as a security measure to prevent abuse of contacts, send messages in classified ads, etc.

Mike Challis SI released a plugin called CAPTCHA Anti-Spam for WordPress which basically allows you to add CAPTCHA for different areas of your site, including feedback forms, registration forms and connections. All that can be configured directly from your administration panel.

Remember, there are a lot of modifications to be done to ensure your blog (server, database connections, etc..) Themes and customization are fun WordPress functions, but safety is always paramount.

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