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Managing comment spam with Yawasp

This blog got about 30 spam comments in the last day or two.

So, I have just installed Yawasp - “Yet Another WordPress Anti-spam Plugin”.

If it is working properly, readers and people commenting on the blog will never even know it’s there.

If it not workng properly, then if you post a comment you may be falsely identified as a spam bot. Please don’t take personally if that happens - it’s just something wrong at this end.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 7:17 am and is filed under Admin, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Managing comment spam with Yawasp”

  1. admin Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 7:18 am

    Just leaving a comment, to test Yawasp.

  2. admin Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am

    Great, it works.
    Installation was easy too.

    I see on the WordPress sites that Yawasp has other satisfied users.

    The advantage of Yawasp, to my thinking, is that it does not require any action from users. That is, people wanting to leave a comment do not need to decipher some mixed up letters, complete a math problem etc. to prove that they are human.

    Instead, within WordPress Yawasp HIDES the real names of the comment fields (and other related fields).
    The spam bots cannot find the fields they are looking for - such as “comment”, “author” etc.

    Here is where Yawasp comes from: http://www.svenkubiak.de/yawasp-en/

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