I just got my first attempted comment spam since moving to WordPress. I was hoping I could go without implementing a CAPTCHA, but that may just be wishful thinking. This comment spam was caught by WordPress because of the number of links it contained (I have WordPress set to hold on queue any comments with 5 or more hyperkinks), but spammers may become warry of this restriction and start limiting the number of hyperlinks placed in spam comments.
When I get back home, I’ll start working on a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress. It’ll likely require modifying a line or two of a WordPress file, but I’ll do my best to keep it as simple as possible.
how goes the work 🙂 ?
It has been put on pause, for now. The “number of links” feature of WP and the blacklist seem to be doing their job well enough. But if it gets really bad, or if I get sufficiently bored, I’ll finish up work on the CAPTCHA.
/me is patiently waiting for a working captcha wordpress plugin =D
I prefer having finer grain control over posts to my site!
Here’s another vote for captcha plugin. I’ve just made the move from MT to WP, and James Seng’s MT Scode captcha plugin is something I’m whining about losing. It served me very well while running the blog under MT.
I expect that I’ll be starting work on the plugin/hack sometime around September 1st. There will be an announcement here, in the WP forums, and possibly on Scriptygoddess too.