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There is an area in my site that I built with Wordpress. Two weeks ago there were 120 spams of medical stuff, all in one page. I removed the option of commenting that page.

Now I've just found 180 spams, this time in diverse entries. They were several random general comments ("great information" etc), and all with the same type of mispelling error of switching letters (such as ansewr instead os answer).

All comments require approval, so these didn't go live, anyway it's a pain to have to deal with that. Any good solution? I know there are anti-spam plugins, but I would like experienced opinion.

I use:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
and I never had one spam comment in my pending list. All Spam went straight to the trash. Love it.

Thanks for you suggestions. Akismet is a paid service, right? So I will leave it off for the time being.

I wonder, how do these tools recognize spam from a real comment?

I'm not paying one cent for it. They may have a premium service but I'm not using it.

I used to delete two or three new spam comments everyday on my personal website, untill I stumbled upon a great tip - tried it and it works great, haven't had a spam comment (or e-mail) since!

The idea is to add a hidden input field (well, the text field itself is not hidden, but it needs to be placed inside a <div> with visibility set to "none" from the stylesheet - bots are clever.) Call the text field "email" and your actual, visible e-mail field something completely unrelated. Then make a function that checks if the false / hidden e-mail input field has been given a value and redirect to a trap-site or Google or whatever if that's the case. If the fake e-mail field field is empty, the comment will be posted.

It's not possible for regular users to see or fill out the field, bots however, will.

Can't believe how great it works - not a single spam comment ever since - given all the annoying captchas out there