I Forgot How Well Akismet Works
Recently, during a debugging exercise on one of my WordPress-based sites, I disabled all the plugins. Including Akismet.
And by recently I mean yesterday.
I kind of take the comment spam protection that Akismet provides for granted, since it’s usually the first plugin I activate on any WordPress site and I pretty much never turn it off on any site after it’s activated.
Well, this morning I woke up and started to take another look at the site I was debugging. I noticed that it had fixed itself, so one of my plugins for sure was the culprit, since I had deactivated them all by this point.
I also noticed I had 100+ new spam comments. All from one night of not having Akismet activated. Holy nuts.
Well, that was all it took to make me realize what Akismet is doing for me every day, all day. I appreciate it much more now. I just had to go without it for a day to realize it.
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