Akismet Update – Proving Its Worth

Behind the scenes of (hopefully) every blog running on WordPress is a plugin called Akismet. Yesterday, Akismet updated their plugin for blocking spam comments on your (and my) blog to version 2.2.1, and I have now discovered the blessing of not having to manage spam on my blog. Akismet seamlessly (for the most part) parses all comments when they are submitted and filters out the evil spam ones (typically made by a machine), so that you get to see only the good stuff (they call it Ham), and I don’t waste my time approving comments.

To celebrate, I thought I would share with you what has made me so happy about all of this. Below is a chart showing just how much spam has been blocked out over the last six months: a grand total of 7928 spam comments, which account for more than 99% of all of the comments made on this blog (sadly, I don’t get more legitimate comments, though this is a great opportunity for you to change that!).