{"id":365,"date":"2008-11-19T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-11-19T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T19:07:35","slug":"life-saving-spam-fighting-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/11\/19\/life-saving-spam-fighting-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-Saving, Spam-Fighting WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually write about technology, unless I&#8217;m writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/technology-humor\/\">limericks and haiku about sundry computer, spam, email, voice mail, and other techie aggravations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m making an exception today because I want to share my wonderful discovery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybrid6.com\/webgeek\/plugins\/wp-spamfree\">WP-SpamFree.<\/a> I&#8217;m not exaggerating when I say it miraculously removes the WordPress comment spam moderation headache.  How?  It blocks all spam coming from bots; i.e., almost all spam.  So it never even gets into your moderation queue.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I used to wade through so much spam while moderating comments, that my eyes would glaze over and I&#8217;d inadvertently delete a legit comment.  In fact, sometimes I&#8217;d get so disgusted, that I&#8217;d delete all pending comments without looking at them &#8212; I just didn&#8217;t have time to scan them and find the very few worth keeping.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a few days ago I installed WP-SpamFree on both of my WordPress blogs, and my moderation woes ended immediately.\u00a0  Now my comments moderation screen is almost spam-free &#8212; it just shows just a bit of human-posted spam plus comments worth approving.\u00a0  So no more wasted time and no more accidentally deleted legit comments.<\/p>\n<p>Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230;\u00a0 in case anybody&#8217;s wondering &#8230; I was NOT paid to rave about this fabulous (and free) plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually write about technology, unless I&#8217;m writing limericks and haiku about sundry computer, spam, email, voice mail, and other techie aggravations. But I&#8217;m making an exception today because I want to share my wonderful discovery: WP-SpamFree. I&#8217;m not exaggerating when I say it miraculously removes the WordPress comment spam moderation headache. How? It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,134],"tags":[139,138,137,136],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-tips","category-wordpress","tag-blog-comments","tag-spam","tag-technology-advice","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}