reCaptcha

I have been getting a lot of comment spam on my blog.  I don’t want to restrict posting only to those that have gone through the (sometimes tedious) process of setting up an account on my server.  There is a place for that, but not on my blog.

I found a free plugin for WordPress called reCaptcha.  You have probably used a captcha before.  It’s one of the fuzzy-looking letter combinations that you have to type to prove you are a human and not an automated spam-bot. Below is an example from my new comment plugin.

After typing your comment, enter the letters you see and your comment will go through.

This should eliminate all the comment spam without creating a headache to the humans that create normal posts.