Searching for a plugin for WordPress preventing spam bots to make comments to your postings, I found a really fine solution called JSSpamBlock plugin. If JavaScript support in your browser is turned off, you see a familiar input field where you have to put in a certain number when you are about to submit your comment. But if it’s on you don’t have to put in anything! The idea is very easy and very elegant. JavaScript does this work for you, it puts in the numer in the field and makes the field invisible. So the assumtion is that the spam bots don’t interprate JavaScript. Thus most of your human site visitors aren’t aware of the measures you took to protect yourself from spam bots. I have already installed this plugin on i-gorod and am really curious whether the idea works.

June 21st, 2007 at 8:23 pm | category: Web development