Entries Tagged ‘akismet’

WordPress is an amazing blog platform! Hardly 9 months after I started using it, I must say that I am in love with it and even started exploring with its core codebase as well as experimenting with my own little plugins. The amount of extensibility built into this blogging platform - or Content Management System (CMS) - is just incredible.

Though I am using a number of plugins and keep on experimenting with more, I am not fully aware of all the newer plugins that are coming in. The aim of this little survey post is to ask you all WordPress lovers, which are your Top 5 WordPress Plugins that are most essential to and powering your blog as of today.
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Of late, all my replies to comments in my own blog have been getting caught by Akismet spam protector. A few good blogger friends alerted me that whatever comments I post on their blogs are getting caught by the spam protection as well. Out of frustration, I contacted the Akismet support and the following was their reply:

DollarShower.com was marked as spam - bloggers had marked comments as that. It is removed from akismet for now but I would advise some care in commenting. - Mark

Firstly, a big thanks to akismet support team for having replied to my query so fast. Not many free services providers reply to their customers’ queries and hence this one definitely needs to be appreciated. Next, let me spend some time to dig into what he meant and what I have been doing as a commentator as well as moderator. Hopefully I can summarize my findings as a bunch of best practices towards the end of this post.
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