Published September 24th, 2005 by Jim O'Halloran
Captcha Added
Since I swapped over to WordPress I’ve had far fewer problems with comment spam. It may be that the SpamBots haven’t yet figured out that I’m not running MT anymore, but I’ve got WP configured with a couple of options to help block the worst of the spammers (block comments posted via open proxies), and of course I’m still using my IPTables spam firewall.
Now as an extra line of defence I’ve added a captcha to the comments form. I used the AuthImage plugin for WordPress with a couple of treaks to the veriword.ini to make the image a little more readable. I’m still not 100% happy with it, it still generates unreadable images at times, but most of the imges are very readable so that will have to do for the moment.
Hopefully this should cut out the last of the automated spam.
bdk Says
I posted on another one of your entries and didn’t see a captcha, I use WP and the CaptCha! plug-in for mine and it works great. I don’t know if you disabled yours, but it doesn’t seem to be working right now.
Good luck
-bdk
Jan 8th, 2006 at 5:40 pm