Wired Vision

Home to Keith McLaughlin, Freelance Web Developer from Dublin, Ireland.

Tag archive for ‘comment’

Comment Spam Protection

I have switched from Akismet to Defensio for my comment spam protection. I don’t know if this will be a permanent change. The effectiveness of Defensio will decide that. Therefore, if you find your comment is not being displayed, it’s quite likely that Defensio has treated it as spam. Don’t worry though. All comments marked [...]


Tagged as , , , , + Categorized as General

11,402 and counting

So far, Askimet has protected my blog from 11,402 spam comments. Thank you Askimet!


Tagged as , , + Categorized as General

Comments Temporarily Disabled

I’ve temporarily disabled commenting because there has been 100+ spam comments posted over the past few days. The built in spam filter isn’t working properly, so I’m going to have to find an alternative way of stopping it. Once I do, comments will be turned back on. Update: Comments have been enabled again. I have [...]


Tagged as , , + Categorized as General

Comment Spam Problems

Recently there’s been an increase in comment spam here at Wired Vision. You may not have noticed it because I’m usually quick to deal with it. None the less, it’s becoming more and more of a problem. As a result I’ve implemented some additional plugins to combat it. The plugins I’ve installed are Spaminator and [...]


Tagged as , , + Categorized as General