{"id":58,"date":"2009-09-10T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2024-08-01T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:49:31","slug":"akismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/akismet\/","title":{"rendered":"Akismet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having this blog up for a month or two it&#8217;s been around long enough for bots to locate the comment sections.\u00a0 When I get legitimate comments I get a notification on my phone, so it&#8217;s been pretty noisy with spam emails.\u00a0 Funny thing that while watching the President on TV being spammed during a town hall by some wing nut I happened to get three in a row.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting the similarity of the tactics of spammers and the ultra-right extremists.\u00a0 BTW &#8211; Did you know that the President is a Kenyan and needs your help in depositing $1billion into your bank account?<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that Akismet, one of WordPress&#8217; default plugins was designed to control spam.\u00a0 Fully setting it up involved signing up for a wordpress account and copy and pasting in the API identifier that is associated with my account.\u00a0 Pretty easy.\u00a0 Since last night it&#8217;s already classified about 10 bogus comments and saved me from being bothered.\u00a0 Well worth the 20 seconds of setup time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Akismet and WordPress devs!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much love for the WordPress comment spam filtering skills of Akismet. <a href=\"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/akismet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}