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.

Spam

After upgrading to the latest version of WPMU, I had a look around to see where there was a way of stopping spam comments since I was forever trying to delete them.  Doing a quick search on wordpress.com (why didnt I do this eariler) there are a number of plugins available that force the user either to a) answer a simple maths question or b) creates an image that the user has to enter.

I’ve not had the maths plugin running for the last month or so and on all the blogs I’ve so far had no spam comments which is fantastic.  Means that I dont need to keep deleting things every couple of days!!