Learn one way to correctly set up your WordPress blog to accept comments and eliminate spam. No special software plugins needed.
The most frustrating aspect of this issue is that when you have taken several minutes to create, what you think, is a great comment, only to find out your comment isn’t accepted. Everyone loses: Not only was your work not accepted, but the blog owner has cheated himself out of a valuable comment. Comments are so important to your blogs success.
What went wrong?
Usually, the blog owner has committed some errors in the set up. It easy to make errors because there are several check boxes that work together. Here is one suggested way to set up your blog in WordPress. I am currently using version 2.6 of WordPress, but these settings are not specific to this version. It should work with every relatively current version.
Learn how to make the settings properly so that you don’t lose your blog to the evil spammers. They can really do you harm.
