Spam/non-sense comments is a major headache to any wordpress webmaster.As long as web traffic is worth “money” spams will exist! Its a fact and we have to take measures to prevent spamming in wordpress blog posts. Earlier days it was really a great headache for admins of wordpress blog. Time consuming is the process of verifying each comments and moderating.

How to prevent/block spam comments in wordpress?

Akismet Spam prevention plugin is the answer to this problem. This plugin is developed by the wordpress dev community itself “Auttomattic” and is praiseworthy plugin. Once you upload and install this plugin it will automatically filter spam comments from your comments database. Another speciality is its intelligence. Some comments that by passes Akismets walls,when moderated as spam by admin will be analysed and all other similar comments will be marked automatically as “spam” in future.

Where to Download Akismet plugin?

You can download akismet plugin from wordpress.org. Here is the Download Link