Christian Little

Not too long ago I created my first wordpress plugin that would track comment statistics. The main goal was to identify where people are commenting and what was attracting spam and several other metrics. You can read about the plugin (click here), and at the time I though it was very well done considering that it was my first attempt.

But in light of my recent spam bulleyes that appears to be painted on this blog, I started looking at other options, take a look at this:

That chart is a report that the Akisment anti-spam plugin can generate for your website. And since Akismet comes with Wordpress by default now, everybody already has some very impressive comment spam reporting tools available to them.

If you look at that chart, you’ll see that since Nov 14th I’ve been getting hammered with spam (I’m now up to about 100/day).

So here’s today’s tip – learn all the features/functions of the software you have already before looking at adding more software to the mix and making things even more complex.