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Hi, it's Jan Kearney at My Local Business Online. I quickly want to show you an alternative
spam plugin to Akismet. This is a WordPress dashboard. We're just going to install a plugin.
The one that you want is a plugin called Antispam Bee.
You'll see when it comes up that this is all in German. Don't worry about that because
on the plugin itself, the instructions are in English. I'm going to install that now.
Then activate the plugin.
Now if we click on the settings, you'll see that there's quite a lot of settings you can
do. It works perfectly well out of the box with all these settings ticked. However there
are a few things you might want to note. The first, untick the notification by email. The
reason I say that is I put this plugin on a blog that was getting absolutely hammered
by spam a few weeks ago. We're talking 100+ spam comments per day, it had been caught
by a bot. Obviously them the email just filled up with spam comments. So I would untick the
notification by mail.
Now it's up to you whether you want to automatically trust approved commenter. If they have already
commented, they don't get checked for spam. I would untick that one for now. It depends
on how you use your blog. I personally have my blog set up so that if a commenter has
already got one approved comment then their comment goes straight through. However, it
is possible that an approved commenter may be missed then come back and spam the site.
So I would take that off myself.
Just pop through the settings and untick the ones you don't like. The ones I personally
remove are trust approved commenters and notification by email. Then click save.
I like to use this plugin as an alternative to Akismet simply because it is very, very
stable and works well with other plugins I have installed. So I now install this one
as standard.
I hope it helps in your battle with WordPress Comments spam. I'll speak to you soon.