Jake’s Life

I’ve been having a major issue with spam filling up my comments lately. Every time my Outlook Mobile inbox synchronized I would get up to ten spam comments (and I have it set to sync every 30 minutes). That’s up to 480 spam comments a day. Not all of them got past the Wordpress spam filter which requires the Admin to approve comments, but several of them did. I looked into various captcha plugins and most of them would have taken up too much time. I wanted something that I could upload, activate, and that’s it. SpamBam takes an alternate approach, and instead of requiring a poster to enter in a string of text from an image file, it delays the ability to post repeat comments. No, it’s not perfect, as one post can be posted, but so far Wordpress has caught those.

I also fixed the contact form which evidently has not been working on the Contact page. Had I known about this sooner it would have been fixed. (That’s a hint to all of you fuckers who saw it wasn’t up and didn’t e-mail me about it!)