Akismet Spam Blocker

One of my favorite features on WordPress is the Akismet spam blocker.  Like your email account, your blog can easily be spammed with “Comments” that are XXX rated junk.  And if you don’t moderate your comments, that trash might worm its way onto your blog before you know it.

Akismet gives you the option of viewing your Comments it deemed spam and listing them as not spam if they are genuine comments.  This actually helps fine tune Akismet to your needs.

Of course, as I am still quite a newbie to the blogging world, I did not actually know this until this week.  I think there may have been several real comments that had been marked as spam by Akismet and trashed before I could review them — WordPress dumps your spam to trash after 15 days.

So if you were a kind soul who commented only to see that your comment never actually appeared, I’m so sorry!  Try again - I’m getting wiser each day!

WM