After implementing a spam filter on my blogs a few months ago in an attempt to stop the spam comments, it seems to have worked really well in stopping all comments from everyone.  The idea of the first plugin was it asked a simple maths question of the user to ensure its a person rather than a human being.  I’m pretty sure that it was working ok, but we got an email the other day saying they couldnt post on the blog.  So after a quick check (I’m not sure what happened) but the plugin was no longer working as I would have expected.  The only thing that I can think of is that an update on wordpress itself caused it too stop working.

After a few searches on the wordpress plugin site I found a new comment spam protector and installed that and it was really simple to get it up and running.  Unfortunately for some reason when this was added to the comments forms they were put in an odd place, underneath the submit button.

So the simple install turned into updating all of the themes that I was using to ensure that it was being placed above the submit button.  I also did a quick hack on the php to remove the label that was being displayed.

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