{"id":521,"date":"2005-03-28T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/28\/update-fighting-blog-spam\/"},"modified":"2005-03-28T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T18:02:42","slug":"update-fighting-blog-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/28\/update-fighting-blog-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Fighting Blog Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Raftery actually has a more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomrafteryit.net\/comment-spam-plugins-no-longer-required\/\">recent entry<\/a> up than the one I linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/28\/fighting-comment-and-referrer-spam-at-the-server-level\/\">previously<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>In this updated comment he notes that he&#8217;s been able to drop the use of the Spam Karma plugin and rely strictly on a custom .htaccess file  which he provides instructions for and a link to, a list of additional words for your WP blacklist and Dr. Dave&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wordpress\/ref-karma\/\">Referrer Karma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage to this approach is that on top of the increase in site performance due to the elimination that the comment processing Spam Karma was responsible for, you&#8217;re blocking access to spammers much earlier in their access to your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Raftery actually has a more recent entry up than the one I linked to previously. In this updated comment he notes that he&#8217;s been able to drop the use of the Spam Karma plugin and rely strictly on a custom .htaccess file which he provides instructions for and a link to, a list of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/28\/update-fighting-blog-spam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UPDATE: Fighting Blog Spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}