Discovering the joy of Askimet

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March 25th, 2008

I know I have been slacking on the blog posts lately, but that hasn’t stopped the comment spammers from finding my blog and inundating me with junk comments to sort through.  Luckily, today I just discovered a wonderful, free comment spam WordPress plugin: Askimet.  Apparently, it has been here the whole time and I never realized it.  Askimet comes pre-installed with WordPress, you just have to activate it and enter an API key (which you can get for free at WordPress.com, even if you don’t have a WordPress.com blog).  And that’s it!  Just by activating it, it immediately marked 212 comments as spam so I don’t even have to worry about them.  Even though I have only been using it for an hour, I would already highly recommend the Askimet plugin to anyone with a WordPress blog.