I was joking with my friends that President Obama had visited my blog twice last month and actually left some comments. I was so excited, but I could not understand why he was pushing Viagra…. those liberals are just too funny! My blog gets its fair share of spam, fortunately the Akismet plug-in does a really good job at flagging the spam comments; I just have to go into the dashboard every so often and clean them out.
I happened to hit a website today that had a nifty little captcha enabled for all of the comment fields, it was a WordPress plug-in called WP-reCaptcha. All you need to do is create an account at reCaptcha.net, generate some keys for your website and plug them into the admin screen. Can’t be much easier than that. It will be interesting to see of I get any more comments on by postings, my real readers never leave them. Good bye spammers, I will miss you!
There is another interesting feature that reCaptcha offers, the hiding of email addresses. You can generate an email url or an obsured email address format (p…@beilers.com). Not exactly sure where I would use this feature, but sometimes it is just good to know about these little things!
