Goodbye Askismet & SI Captcha Anti-Spam, Hello WP-Spamshield!

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So a couple weeks back right after I got back to work here at Wealthy Affiliate I came across a post from Kyle about the Akismet Plugin and how they were going from free to paid. I was both excited and sad about this post...

Why Was I Sad?

Well, just as the title of Kyle's post suggested, it was the Dark Side of Greed. It pains me whenever I see obvious mistakes that were made due to a greedy nature. Askismet had protected my site for a long time and now I needed to move on, which meant change.

Obviously we all have some trepidations about change, but I followed his suggestion of WP-Spamshield and took the plunge...

Why Was I Happy?

After I had installed WP-Spamshield and deleted the Askismet plugin I had an idea. I had never liked having the Captchas in order for someone to leave a comment as I know that it can very easily block you from getting the engagements that we all are working towards.

I had tried removing the SI Captcha plugin before to see if Askismet would still be up for the task, but it never worked. I would get a ton of spam comments everyday and before long I reactivated the SI Catpcha plugin.

Now with WP-Spamshield, I decided that I would try the same experiment with removing the Captcha. To my pleasant surprise, not one bit of spam hit my sites. Not even in the spam folder! This made life so much easier!!

Lastly I was able to delete two plugins and replace with only one, which is another solid benefit. Having too many of those can slow our sites down and we don't want that!

Wrap Up

Anywho, a big thanks to Kyle and those that created the WP-Spamshield plugin. Thanks to both, life is easier and who can complain about that?

If you missed Kyles Blog about Askismet you can see it here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/kyle/blog/akismet-plugin-the-dark-side-of-greed

Keep Working It!

James W D

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James, Thanks for the update. This is 100% helpful!

You're welcome. Glad to help

Thanks James for the update. I don't think i saw the update from kyle but i guess i do now.

I have been loving it. Less Plugins, no Captchas for my guests to fill out. Has been great!

The new Spamshiled is amazing. I haven't gotten a single spam comment, versus loads of them every single day with Akismet.
I didn't know that captcha can be removed, or that sit should be removed.

yeah I am loving Spamshield. Try taking the Captcha off for a day or two just by deactivating it first. Then if no spam, you can go ahead and delete it!

Ok, I will give that a try Jaweda

Hope it works out for you like it did me! Let me know!

Great reminders
Thanks
Sami

You are welcome Sami!

Thanks for posting! I hate the captcha aspect of comments.

Right there with you. Was ecstatic when I tested taking it off and the new plugin worked!

Thanks for the reminder ... I seemed to miss it first time round.

You're very welcome. Glad I was able to help!

Thanks for the info, I must have missed Kyles warning, have done this now and will check tomorrow as I get a lot of spam, like the delete 2 plugins, works for me.

I know sometimes it can be hard to keep up with all of the info that goes on here. That is why it is important for us all to share.

Never thought of getting rid of captcha thank you for letting us know

Yeah was never a fan of that one but it did the job for a while. Happy to have moved on past it.

me to will have a look as I have been using anti spam bee for months now not problems but would like to be rid of captcha

Let me know how it works out for you.

I will thanks will try it out on my test site the busiest and significant weekend as passed and one mistake crashed my site :( thank goodness for tech support

Egads! Glad they were able to get you all squared up.

Great idea...I already have WP Spamshield as Kyle suggested but never thought of getting rid of Si Captacha. I will give it a try.
Thanks.

Hope it works for you just like it did for me! Welcome!

Thanks so much for the info. Just removed Akismet and installed WP-Spamshield on my personal blog outside WA

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

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