Yesterday I installed the wp-spamshield plugin for WordPress [1]. It blocks automated comment spam systems by using JavaScript and cookies, apparently most spammers can’t handle that. Before I installed it I was getting hundreds of spam comments per day even with the block spam by math plugin enabled. Now I’ve had it running for 24 hours without any spam. The real advantage of this is that now when a legitimate comment gets flagged as spam I’ll notice it, previously I was deleting hundreds or thousands of comments at a time without reading them.
deb http://www.coker.com.au wheezy wordpress
The above repository has the wordpress-wp-spamshield package for Debian/Wheezy. I have no immediate plans for uploading it to Debian because the security support for WordPress plugins doesn’t fit in with the Debian model. I am prepared to negotiate about this if someone has good reasons for including it or any of the other WordPress plugins I’ve packages.
My packaging work is under the GPL (of course) so any DD who disagrees with me could just rebuild the package and upload it. Within Debian there is no rule taking another DD’s GPL’d code that they decided not to upload and then uploading it. There is a consensus that such things are not appropriate without permission, but anyone who wishes can take this blog post as permission.