{"id":1000,"date":"2006-09-21T12:24:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T12:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/akismet-spammers-take-that\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:59","slug":"akismet-spammers-take-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/akismet-spammers-take-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Akismet:  Spammers &#8211; Take That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My lowly little web site turned into a comment <span>spammers<\/span> paradise last Sunday.  I had to delete over 500 comments that ranged from completely irrelevant to the site to downright disgusting.  I had tried the <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/node\/30501\"><span>Drupal<\/span> module &quot;bad <span>behavior<\/span><\/a>&quot;, but ended up somehow locking myself out of my own site.  I&#39;m sure that was due to some newbie mistake on my part, but I turned off the module.\u00a0 I remembered reading a series of posts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcynorman.net\/2006\/06\/22\/akismet-rocks\">D&#39;Arcy Norman about his success installing <span>Akismet<\/span><\/a> on his <span>Drupal<\/span> site.  I am happy to report that I, too, have had great success with <span><a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a><\/span>.  Since last night, it properly filtered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/aect-2006-dallas-here-i-come\/\"><span>legitimate<\/span> comments<\/a> and unpublished over 45 comments that even made me blush.  Thank you, <span>Akismet<\/span>!!<br \/> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Akismet\">Akismet<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/spam\">spam<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lowly little web site turned into a comment spammers paradise last Sunday. I had to delete over 500 comments that ranged from completely irrelevant to the site to downright disgusting. I had tried the Drupal module &quot;bad behavior&quot;, but ended up somehow locking myself out of my own site. I&#39;m sure that was due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}