Last night for a reason that matters not, I deactivated and altered some plugins. One of them was the spam-busting “Bad Behavior”. This morning I have over 200 spams. Bad Behavior works. Get it 🙂
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior
Second short
You can spell it “Bad Behaviour” if you like. I don’t mind. 🙂
I have to say that WP Hash Cache is the best Spam solution by far.
I can’t recomend it enough, its the only thing I run and I get no spam at all, ever. It stops all robots dead. Bad Behaviour does look nice though… however I have no need of it.
I’m not going to disagree Gregory 🙂
(I get enough grief from certain people just recommending what I use)
My understanding though is that BB saves me bandwidth and server hits, other options do not. BB can also be used on a complete domain through one install, so protecting several blogs. No others do that.
BB+++
This is very true, BB is a very comprehensive solution. I think a combination of BB and Hash Cache could, in fact, be the complete killer method.
Spam Protection evangelism is turning into the blogging version of browser evangelism 😉
How does one accomplish this? :blush:
You need to use the ‘prepend’ property in your domain .htaccess
For instance, it’s installed here in the correct plugin folder, and in the DOMAIN .htaccess, this line would exist:
php_value auto_prepend_file /–full path–/T2/wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php
That calls the plugin before any page is loaded.
If you activate the plugin as well in the blog, it WILL cause errors, so don’t 🙂
Awesome, thanks Mark!
I didn’t notice how well BB works until I read this post. It’s worked a treat on my site.
Thanx Mark.
Very cool. Bad behaviour has certainly cut my comment spam to NIL 🙂
Thanks for the heads up Mark.