Opened wp-admin page this morning to find 65 comments. Thought for a moment that I may have had a huge responce to a post but it turns out that over 80% of them were spam! Time for a bit of spam prevention.

I used a simple CAPTCHA wordpress plugin which doesn’t require real people to input any characters and garuntees 100% success. I’m not holding my breath. If the plugin doesn’t work I’ll have to resport to user-input methods to decide between bots and the living, which I don’t perticularly like doing. However, desperate times and all that.

CAPTCHA software has always got my back up; Just seem’s like there could be better ways to determine between the two sources. However I’m starting to think that WordPress should include CAPTCHA as default to it’s posts… something I didn’t think i’d ever admit!