Activate akismet and forget about the spam... 
Id be surprised if akismet let's pass more than 1 for each 1000 spam comments.
If that happens than you know you found a spammer who knows what he's doing, which isn't the case 99.9999999999% of times.
That's why I love wordpress and all their documentation instead of custom code with no docs.
Id be surprised if akismet let's pass more than 1 for each 1000 spam comments.
If that happens than you know you found a spammer who knows what he's doing, which isn't the case 99.9999999999% of times.
That's why I love wordpress and all their documentation instead of custom code with no docs.
+1 (I normally don't do the + thing, but this is the second one in the row for me. I did them cause I agree with the post(s))
Akismet does work really well. I have used Wordpress for some projects and it is a neat piece of software. Check also the add-ons, you have anti spam tools in there too (like captchas, etc).
Truth is, regardless of the software you run, you will have to put up with spammers.
My 2btc
The plugin repository is your best friend when building on top of wordpress. It saves a lot of trips to the Codex pages 
