The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Spam

Think you know spam? If you don't learn something new in this guide, I'll eat my hat.

Akismet, the most popular spam killing plugin for WordPress, encounters 7.5 million pieces of spam per hour on average. That’s twice as much spam as there are people in Los Angeles. Every hour. Back in 2007, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg knew spam would be a growing problem for the CMS, saying at the time it was getting so bad that it was “effectively a denial-of-service attack on people’s websites,” adding that 94% of blog comments were sp…