One of the most annoying aspects of blogging is the amount of spam which comes with it, but if you have built your blog using wordpress you could easily say goodbye to spam by using these effective pluggins. A staggering 83% of all blog comments are spam, meaning 83% of your time moderating your blog is being wasted and preventing you from working on other jobs.

So if you have had enough of wasting your time with useless spam, check out these pluggins which will help you spam proof your blog within minutes, and with quick and easy installation.

Akismet WordPress Plugin

You don’t have to do anything to configure Akismet besides entering your API key, just activate and relax. However you do need at least WordPress version 2.0 or above for everything to work. The latest version of the plugin is 2.2.7.

Comment Guard Pro

Comment Guard Pro (for WordPress) is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams – trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam you; they are the hardest to detect), referrer spam etc. Comment Guard Pro provide multiple layers of protection against all kind of comment spams.

Bad Behaviour

Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. Bad Behaviour complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin

This plugin for Wordpress 1.5.2, 2.0.x and 2.1 asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. This plugin does not require JavaScript or cookies. It uses a special encryption function; the result of the question is being passed via a hidden field.

yaCAPTCHA

yaCAPTCHA is Yet Another CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress based on KCAPTCHA.

yaCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress that helps you block comment spam from automated bots. In order to post comments, users will have to write down the characters that are part of an image. Since it is relatively hard for automated programs to figure out those characters, this will help prevent comment spam from those programs.

WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam, it includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

If you are a newbie to blogging or even a much more seasoned blogger, I hope the pluggins above will help you in defeating blog spam.

Do you know of any other anti spam pluggins for wordpress?

About The Author:

Michelle Kirkbride

Michelle Kirkbride is a web developer, she currently lives in Yorkshire, UK with her two beautiful children and loving partner. She spends far too much time at her computer and is currently addicted to her work. Michelle Kirkbride the founder of Kaplang is also a business Mentor with D100, a Success Doncaster mentoring programme run by Deloitte and funded by the Doncaster Council.