WP-Hashcash Plugin

Although the powerful Akismet plug-in quells about 99% of the spam received on this blog, I have taken the step of experimenting with another plug-in, namely WP-Hashcash.  This plug-in operates in an extirely different way, employing client-side javascript to determine whether the page was opened in a browser.  This will block all spam bot submissions, but leave genuine comments untouched.

It is feasible to replace Akismet with WP-Hascash.  However, the way in which Hashcash works permits the two to work together.  With the initial checks performed by Hashcash;  if Hashcash suspects a bot sourced submission then place it in the Akismet queue for its perusal.

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One Response to WP-Hashcash Plugin

  1. Robert Smith says:

    thank you for this information, I just posted a comment on someones blog and after I submitted it came up with a blank page that said wp-hashcash which I never seen before so thank you for explaining it.

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