AntiSpam Wordpress Plugins & A Fresh Geeks Update
6 February 08This is just a quick update post on some minor changes I’ve made to Fresh Geeks Blogging.
Fight Spam With Wordpress Captcha Plugins
I’ve been getting a ton of spam comments…a lot more than usual. So along with Akismet (for those of you who don’t already know, Akismet is probably the most widely known Wordpress antispam plugin), I’m not incorporating a captcha in the comments section.
Just a little FYI for those unaware of captchas: Captchas are a great way of deciphering bots and automated programs from real, true human audiences. Captchas consist of a box near the box where information is submitted on a website. In this case, it is the comments section.
You’re either asked to type the words you see or an answer to a simple question. Once you get the desired answer right, the program determines that you are a human, and you are then allowed to submit the information for the website to process.
Right now, I’m using the ReCaptcha plugin which you can see it in action right below the comment box if you scroll down. I realize that it is a pain to type in two words, and somewhat difficult to decipher the words you are supposed to type in in the captcha.
That is why I’ll be switching to Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam plugin as soon as I can get it to work here on Fresh Geeks. I’m having a bit of an issue with it, but I’ll be sure to have it up and running as soon as possible to give you readers a break.
Make Money with ScratchBack?
The last recent addition to Fresh Geeks is the ScratchBack widget you see in the right sidebar. I’ve decided to give ScratchBack a try. What this program is about is a legal (meaning up to Google’s standards for keeping that precious pagerank) way of buying links as advertising. I’m sure you’ve all heard about it as it’s been around for more than a couple of months.
Clicking on the widget will take you to the page where you are allowed to leave a tip for the blogger via Paypal. The price is determined by the blog owner (the asking price for Fresh Geeks is just $2.00).
Once you leave the tip and the desired url to be put displayed, the blog owner can approve it, and your link with chosen anchor text will be displayed in the ScratchBack widget.
I don’t see a way where you can get rich off of using ScratchBack (maybe a better method would be a high yield savings account lol), but it can very well serve as another method for social networking and supporting your fellow bloggers. I’ll post an update on my final thoughts about ScratchBack later.
If you’ve used the program, or can recommend any antispam plugins worth taking a look at, feel free to give your blogging guides thoughts.
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What kind of trouble are you having setting it up?
Hi Peter
Nothing happens, actually, when I activate it in the plugins section.
Perhaps I’m missing a step…or I’m using the wrong version. I’ll look more into it later…
Thanks
Hmmm, my usual advice for that is to use the manual insert method, as described here:
http://www.theblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/do_action.htm
Alright, I’ll do that and update you on it. Thanks for the help Peter.
My 2 cents:
I hate the CAPTCHAs where you have to read the barely-legible text and numbers on the loud, distracting background. I usually can’t read it right and get rejected.
The ones that ask the questions, ie. 2+2? are much, much better and likely work just as well
@Dara
I also have issues reading those, which is probably why I’m taking so long to respond to everyone’s comments here at Fresh Geeks. I’ve taken down the Recaptcha and am just using Akismet for now. Let’s see how the spam goes without captcha. Thanks for your 2 cents