Everyone should run this plugin. It catches well over 95% of my spam without requiring any action on my part. It should probably be your first anti-spam plugin. My only complaint is that it doesn’t like .info domains, so every time Fledge<\/a> posts a comment I have to fish it out of the spam trap. If it weren’t for this, I don’t think the plugin would ever have a false positive. Still, it’s a real time saver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bad Behavior<\/a> <\/p>\n
You shouldn’t need this plugin until you have a serious spam problem, at which point it becomes indispensable. It has a few quirks that I’m not crazy about. If you’ve ever submitted a comment, gotten a 403 Forbidden error, and then refreshed to find your comment intact – this is Bad Behavior. The docs don’t explain how it works, so if you want to know you have to open the source and figure it out for yourself. (Which, I admit, I have not done.) Still, the plugin is very<\/em> effective at repelling spam comments and other assorted trouble. If I take Bad Behavior down, my site gets crushed with spam traffic that borders on a DOS attack. The protection offered is easily worth the price of a few quirks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam<\/a> <\/p>\n
I recently disabled this plugin when I realized that it’s largely redundant with Bad Behavior in place. This plugin is what displayed the CAPTCHA on the site, which I had set to always come up “d20”. When I disabled this plugin I went from getting zero spam a day to getting about four or five. A little annoying, but it’s worth it since people no longer have to type “d20” every time they comment. Still, I loved this plugin, as it was part of the personality of this site for over a year. It’s nice to know I still have this one to fall back on if it ever gets to the point where Akismet and Bad Behavior can’t keep up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Picture Tags<\/strong> <\/p>\n
This is an unreleased plugin this I wrote myself. It lets me embed pictures without needing to clutter up my posts with a metric buttload of HTML. When I want to embed a picture, I just enter some text like this:<\/p>\n
[image|ffx_sending2.jpg|center|One of my favorite scenes from Final Fantasy X.|?p=332|Final Fantasy X|300]<\/code><\/p>\nIt’s a set of fields, seperated by vertcal bars: Image name, justification, caption text, URL to link to, mouseover text, and image width. Everything after the image name is optional. The code above results in:<\/p>\n
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