Another spam protection for WordPress
May 28th, 2007Despite the fact this blog has not so many visitors, spam-protect plugin (akismet) catch 50-70 spam-commends daily. Most of them contain something like [url=http://jxfbvjhdfv.com]. Since wordpress don’t understand bbcode I consider a good practice to delete such comments. But there is no reason to blacklist these “words” using wordpress due to blacklisted comments will be marked as spam instead deleting.
Here is my solution. I think it is quite good and have one important advantage: spam processed before putting to MySQL thereby reduced CPU load.
I add this kode to askimet.php, but you free to put in any suitable place :)
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