Beat Wordpress spam with two plugins

I love Wordpress. It’s designer-friendly, easy-to-use, and free. What I hate is managing spam.

I have two pet peeves when it comes to preventing spam:

I’m lazy and don’t want to moderate every single comment. Making readers enter CAPTCHA letters is annoying and just isn’t cool.

Fortunately, here’s two plug-ins for worry-free and unobtrusive spam control:

Akismet

Both […]

Is it possible to survive getting dugg?

My recent post, One desktop background to rule them all, got on the front page of digg.com today. Sean and I were both thrilled, but unfortunately the huge wave of traffic brought our server to a grinding halt. Situations like this are what I thrive on, because it presents an interesting challenge and gets […]