Wordpress Comment Spam is killing my blog: Help!

[Weerdboil]

I am in charge of our company wordpress blog and we regularly update the content. However, we are getting hundreds of spam comments every week. To be honest I wouldn't care as they go straight into the spam folder BUT we are missing out on a few legitimate comments because it is so difficult and time consuming going through all the comments.

Does anyone have an ideas on how to tackle this and stop this? It would be really appreciated.

[MarieHaynes]

Do you have the latest version of Askimet installed?  I find it catches 99.9% of my spam.

[SteveOllington]

Dunamis is right, Askimet is the best way, and also if you're blog's links are nofollow it will help to deter at least some of it. Not all, as some of the automated stuff posts anyway, but some of it will only comment on dofollows, and it will stop some manual spam comments

[Lemonade]

If you are on Wordpress.com then Akismet is the way to go.

If you host the blog yourself then I would recommend placing a captcha plugin. Something like this - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-custom-anti-spam-image/. Stops most bots.

[David_ODonnell]

Yes, yes, Askimet is awesome, but add WP Hascash plugin and you'll take it to another level, it stops the bots before they even have a chance to enter a spammy comment.

WP Hashcash is an antispam plugin that eradicates comment spam on WordPress blogs. It works because your visitors must use obfuscated javascript to submit a proof-of-work that indicates they opened your website in a web browser, not a robot. If the javascript check fails, WP Hashcash now gives you three options; it can either put the comment into moderation (default), put the comment in the akismet queue, or delete it.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/

[seomelb]

I think if Askimet doesn't work you should implement the facebook comments plugin.