Why I love Akismet!
I love Akismet because it has saved me a lot of time and ibuprofen (that I would be taking for the headaches I would get trying to ward off spammers. Here’s why:
Now this blog hasn’t been around for that long, considering that I made my first post on June 13 of this year, and I haven’t been posting as regularly as I would like, so to have been hit with that amount of spam in such a short time is something to think about!
Let’s think about this for a few minutes: This blog has been online for about 6 months now, that’s approximately 180 days, give or take. If you do the math, you find that this comes to about 8 spam messages a day!! Wow!!
Since I have comment moderation turned on, without Akismet I would be getting on average 8 emails a day to moderate comments on this blog alone!
Do you see now why I love Akismet?
If you have a Wordpress blog, make sure that you enable Akismet, it will save you lots and lots of time!
4 Users Commented In " Why I love Akismet! "
Hey Mary, I’m interested to learn what other plugins you are using. Have you upgraded to WP 2.6 yet?
JP,
I haven’t upgraded to 2.6 yet, this is one of the gripes I have with WP is that you have to constantly update. I’ll probably start updating my blogs soon though.
Regarding plugins, this is the list of plugins I am currently using:
Code Snippet - http://blog.enargi.com/codesnippet/ - This is a code highlighting plugin that allows me to write code snippets for example in tutorials.
DoFollow - http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/ - This selectively disables the “nofollow” tagging for comments so that links in comments get weight.
Easy Tube - This allows me to place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content
Feedburner Feedsmith - http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart - detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber
Google XML Sitemaps - http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO
Related Entries - http://www.semiologic.com/software/widgets/terms2posts/ - Leverages Yahoo’s terms extraction web service to display related posts on your site.
Hey sorry I’m just getting back to this. Did you update yet? I haven’t upgraded to WP 2.6 yet either. I’ll test it out one lazy Sunday, when I have nothing else to do.
Later,
JP
I haven’t upgraded yet!! Been too lazy and I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with Drupal :).
Let me know how your upgrade goes. I think I’ll start with my smaller blogs and see how that goes before I update the bigger ones.
