It usually helps to reduce the SPAM if the blogger remembers to enable Akismet. ::pounds head on desk:: Just realized that I had not enabled Akismet on this blog, so that explains the deluge of junk comments I was getting. Why had I thought that Akismet was automatically enabled when WordPress was installed? I need to double check the other blogs I was having trouble with comment SPAM on, see if I got Akismet enabled on them or not – I’m betting it’s ‘not’.
Akismet helps
It usually helps to reduce the SPAM if the blogger remembers to enable Akismet. ::pounds head on desk:: Just realized that I had not enabled Akismet on this blog, so that explains the deluge of junk comments I was getting. Why had I thought that Akismet was automatically enabled when WordPress was installed? I need to double check the other blogs I was having trouble with comment SPAM on, see if I got Akismet enabled on them or not – I’m betting it’s ‘not’.