At the beginning of your WordPress, there is a possibility of receiving spam. Receive email comments when you start a blog can increase traffic so that it can be scary for beginners. Therefore they have no access to prevent spammers from reading our blogs. In just a few minutes of your blog can be propagated by the thousands of comments. This article presents six proven useful plugins that are available on wordpress to help combat and eradicate spam.

yaCAPTCHA

This is a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress designed that blocks comment spam bots automatic. So if you submit comments, users must write the characters from the image provided. It is expected that automated programs to be hard to imagine the characters, a great help in preventing spam in the comments.

What are the requirements for their computer yaCAPTCHA: WordPress 1.5 or higher, PHP 4.0.6 or higher, with the support of the library GD2, a question must be compatible with the action “comment_form.

Trackback Spam Resources

A very simple and effective test b ut all trackbacks to stop the spam. The TrackBack Validator plugin for WordPress that are sent by the comments on his blog that accompanies a URL that points to this comment. TrackBack spam is accompanied by a URL to an affiliate website pay per click or irrelevant documents. The validator uses this essential difference:

1. When you receive a TrackBack, the plugin retrieves the Web page located at the URL listed in the TrackBack.
2. If the page contains a link to your blog, TrackBack is approved.
3. If the page does not link to your blog, trackback is marked as spam and rejected.

Because spammers TrackBack not create custom Web pages that links to weblogs that attack, this simple test will quickly reveal illegitimate Trackbacks.

WP-SpamFree and Trackback Validator

A powerful anti-WordPress plugin that eradicates comment spam, trackback have a good removal efficiency and pingback spam. It works invisibly, without CAPTCHA or nuisance to other site visitors. The plugin includes spam free contact form feature as well.

Characteristic

1. It is free for personal and commercial.
2. The beauty of this plugin is the method of blocking spam. It takes a different approach from most spam and stops at the door.
3. Trackback and pingback spam protection powerful.
4. Works like a firewall to ensure that their comments are really human. Virtually eliminates comment spam bots.
5. It has a meter on your dashboard to track all spam blocked. The figures show the effectiveness of this plugin.
6. Includes drop-in contact form against spam. Easy to use? no configuration needed.
7. No false positives, reducing the number of readers frustrated, and less work for you.
8. You do not have to waste valuable time sifting through a queue of mail again, because there will be much, if at all.
9. Easy to install? Plug and play. Just download and activate.
10. The code has an overhead of bandwidth very low and will not slow down your blog (access to databases very light), unlike other anti-spam plugins.
11. Fully compatible with all cache plugins, including WP Cache and WP Super Cache. Not all anti-spam plugins can say that.
12. See the statistics of your spam blocked on his blog.
13. Helps keep your database finer and more efficient.
14. Also works in WordPress MU.

Hidden Defender

Plugin wpsecurity1This specializes in the protection of registration forms, login and comment from spambots, addin g two additional fields hidden by CSS. This approach has given me 100% protection against spam in one of my sites.

The idea behind this plugin is simple: spam bots, complete all fields on the form provided (spam bots generic) or to fill specific fields in WordPress only (against spam bots that are recognized or addressed WP to WP only). Therefore, just add two additional text fields to the form (one empty and one with a default value), and check their values ​​after submission. The first (empty) field will be filled by generic spam bots, and a second is not occupied by spam bots only objective WP. With these two checks that probably all spam bots, can be easily detected, so that WP can return the error “403 Forbidden” for them.

These two additional fields are hidden with CSS rule, so it will not be visible to most users. Only users with text browsers (very old and does not support CSS) will see them. Hidden Defender also displays the number of spammers blocked in the Dashboard, you can see that it really works.
Akismet

Akismet plugin is probably the most important and useful that will be installed. It was developed by the team behind Wordpress, if that’s not enough of a seal of approval and the warranty does not know what it is. In short, Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not, and you can review the spam it catches under “Comments” admin screen of your blog.

Requires WP2.0 or higher and is compatible with WP 2.8.4.

Maximum security for Wordpress

Maximum security for Wordpress is full of strong protection that makes their high-security site. Protects against intrusion, the control of a large number of events, blocks malicious content that could affect your readers and your ranking in search engines, and includes a firewall with Web demand a system of prevention full-blown intrusion and it is only the tip of the iceberg. No other security plugin for Wordpress comes close to matching any powerful features of this tool.