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If you've had a blog for any length of time, you've probably been assaulted with blog comment spam. Users of WordPress have the fantastic Akismet spam filtering tool freely available to them by Automattic, the makers of WordPress. But while Akismet is good (really good), it's not perfect.

If you have been using Akismet, but are still seeing too many spam messages slipping through, consider installing Simple Spam Filter by TanTanNoodles. Simple Spam Filter has existed for a little while now as a basic spam filter, but was recently updated to make use of captcha security via reCAPTCHA. The implementation is beautiful.

Let's be honest, nobody likes having to fill out captcha forms. And you wouldn't want all of your site visitors to be facing a captcha form every time they submit a comment. Luckily, they won't. Simple Spam Filter will only offer up a captcha field to commenters whose comments are flagged as spam by the plugin itself, or by Akismet.

While it's never going to be possible to have 100% protection from comment spam, the combination of Akismet and Simple Spam Filter sure comes close, at least for now. If you've got this problem, maybe the solution is as simple as installing and enabling this WordPress plugin.