Of all the antispam plugins for WordPress, the I’m most interested in the plugins that are clients for spamfighting services. I’m aware of four such plugins/services, and I recently compared them on at Changing Way. Now it’s time to try them here.
Or at least, it’s time to try three of them here. I don’t feel a need to try Akismet, since it’s built in to WordPress.com, and hence into Changing Way.
I already had the Defensio plugin here, so it was just a matter of activating it. Last night, it picked up a few spam comments, and let through the sole real comment that it should have done. You might gather that this blog is not a test site for high-volume spam fighting.
TypePad AntiSpam V1.02 also presented no problems, although the TPAS site currently mentions WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 as the supported versions. The plugin claims that it is “By Matt Mullenweg, Six Apart,” a claim I don’t entirely believe. I let TPAS run for a while.
Then I activated Mollom. No problems to report with any of the plugins I’ve used, but then again, this blog is obscure enough to be spared extensive spam commenting.