Getting thousands of spam comments
You can prevent some hits by blocking bots before akismet catches them, these plugins can be very effective. Plugins: Bad Behavior plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/ Honeypot Traps: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/project-honey-pot-spam-trap/ WP-Hashcash http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/ Zig Trap http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zigtrap/ Stop bots with no user agents from posting and directory browsing (this goes in your .htaccess) RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ … Read more