Spam on WordPress

When I moved my blog to WordPress I read some best practices that said I should not require users to register to in order to post comments, claiming that I didn’t need to worry about spam. So I left it open for anyone to anonymously post. It worked out fine for the first year or so. Then about a month ago I got over 4’000 spam comments within a few days.

I stopped the open policy, but now I’m stuck with all these spam comments that I’m not sure how I’m going to get rid of.

I wonder why the sudden rise of the spam comments. I’m guessing that spammers have been able to get around the text guessing game that WordPress uses, somehow.