I have been working on this blog for about 6 months now and honestly using Wordpress has been a great experience. I have tried to discover it as much as I can by trying new hacks, new themes and new plugins. But even after all this research I was unable to discover a solid method or plugin that would block these obvious spam comments on my blog. Now that I get over 600-700 Spam Comments daily on my blog I had to look for a permanent solution to block spam and fortunately I found one.

Simple Spam Filter For Wordpress by Tan Tan

Akismet does a very good job in blocking spam comments on your blog. The fact that it comes bundled with Wordpress strengthens its power as a good anti-spam plugin but this is also a mere fact that it fails to differentiate between the very-obvious blog spam and the normal comments and that is where Simple Spam Filter comes to the rescue. For a blog that receives huge volume of spam daily it would be good if there is way to block the obvious spam comments even before they reach your Akismet spam box and Simple Spam Filter does exactly the same job.

How Simple Spam Filter Works?

The demerit of Akismet is that while it collects all those spam comments in the Akismet box for you to review later, it unintentionally makes difficult for you to scan all those spam to find the non-spam comments and hence this can waste a lot hell of your time.

Simple Spam Filter on the other hand does a very nice and sweet job by blocking those spam comments which have obvious spam-traits and does not let them make it to the Wordpress system. Obvious spam-traits may exhibit the following tendencies:

• Contains 5 or more links to external sites
• Contains [url=http://www.example.com]example[/url] style links (my blog does not support bbcode style links)
• Contains a word that matches a short list of common spam words (for example, viagra or cialis). See the plugin’s source for the full list.

This way your only those comments reach your Akismet box which have the least and minimum spam traits. Lets just say that Simple Spam Filter will help you reduce your spam from 600-700 to 6-7

Note: The thing to note is that this plugin works in relation with Akismet so for maximum spam protection you must activate and use both simultaneously.

Download and Install Simple Spam Filter

1. Download and unzip the plugin.
2. Upload the entire 'tantan' directory to the WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Login to your WordPress admin, click 'Plugins', and then activate the 'TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter' plugin.

You can always visit the official plugin page for more discussion and questions.

If you are one of those victims like me for whom blog spam is the biggest threat then this is the best plugin for you. Please share your experience in fighting blog spam and if you have better anti-spam solutions please recommend some