Stop spam on WordPress blog

I created a ‘blog section’ on this web site a month. WordPress was an obvious choice because I could install it in less than a minute via the Fantastico script library in the control panel. By the way, if you too want to add a blog to your web site refer that article for detailed instructions with screenshots. Anyway, as the traffic increased, my mailbox was flooded with spam comments, something that I had earlier been able to curtail using reCAPTCHA with the feedback forms on the rest of the pages on this site. Could I use the same to stop spam on this WordPress blog? As luck would have it, I found the reCAPTCHA plugin for WordPress. So if you too are fed up with spam on your blog, here is what you need to do.

Install reCAPTCHA plugin to stop spam on your WordPress blog

It took me less than 2 minutes to install and activate the WordPress reCAPTCHA plugin on my blog. Here are the exact steps:

• Go to the reCAPTCHA web site and create an account. [I already had one]
• Download the plugin (zip file) from WordPress web site.
• Unzip the compressed file to a temporary directory. You should now see a wp-recaptcha folder with a few files.
• Upload the entire folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on the web server.
• You now need to activate the reCAPTCHA plugin so that it can stop spam on your WordPress blog. Refer screenshot below:
  
  
• The plugin needs a little more push to activate – you have to provide it with two keys – the public and private reCAPTCHA keys. Click on the “enter your reCAPTCHA API key” link as shown in the screenshot
  
  
• You can get the reCAPTCHA keys by logging in at your account on recaptcha.net and selecting the web site for which you want to use this spam protection measure.
• Simply copy-paste the two keys (private and public) in the WordPress settings for reCAPTCHA and click on “Update Options” link/button.
  
  
• That’s it! You should see the reCAPTCHA security image with the wavy text in the comments section.

I’m sure a sufficient amount of spam will be stopped on your WordPress blog by using the reCAPTCHA plugin. Best of luck.

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