The moderator is working well, so you’re not (usually) seeing it, but the comment spam is just starting to creep up. And I don’t want to have to waste time deleting that rubbish. So I’m installing Kitten’s Spaminator (done!). Hopefully, readers won’t see any difference, but if you have any difficulties, send me an email (). In fact, if you want to just send a brief comment to this post to make sure they’re getting through OK, that’d be appreciated.
What I’d quite like to have, but I don’t know if it’s available for WordPress, is the system at Pharyngula (amongst other sites), where commenters have to type in a random code word displayed on the screen in order to send a comment. (Alternatively, scribblingwoman forces commenters to preview before they can submit; that’s on Movable Type I think.) The challenge, of course, is finding ways to stop the spambots without obstructing genuine comments. And if other WP users have killer tips (I’m already using a few of the methods listed here), it’d be good to hear from you.
And I really have to think about that WP upgrade before long…
Early Modern Notes 
a test…
testing
Yeah, there is a test-word thingie for WP. I think petite anglaise uses it. I decided to install the plugin that auto-moderates all posts older than a week.
I’ll go have a look. I already set comments to close after 30 days, which helped, but the spam was now attacking new posts too.