For my blog, I too run Akismet to catch any spam that is posted to my blog, but I also prevent spam from being posted in the first place using a few plugins: Cookies For Comments requires that people leaving comments have cookies and CSS stylesheets enabled. A stylesheet is added to your site that … Read more
On the Akismet side, a few things to note. First, in wp-admin under ‘Plugins -> Akismet Configuration’ is everything green? You mentioned that you confirmed the API key is correct. Did you check the ‘Server Connectivity’ section? All of the IP addresses listed should be green. If not then you server isn’t able to make … Read more
I have used a WAMP server to host my website publicly, using Godaddy for my domain and open ports so it’s public. Ever since I installed WordPress, it keeps trying to send messagess to some email address every time I do anything, and now it’s picked up Google spam filters so I recieve the following … Read more