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Defensio anti spam
By admin | November 30, 2007
Author: Karabunga, Inc
Defensio is an advanced spam filtering web service that learns and adapts to your behaviors and those of your readers.
Advanced features such as detailed statistics, charts, RSS feed of our comments (innocent and spam) and counter widget are also available.
Defensio aims to be an all-in-one anti-spam solution. Therefore, using it along with other anti-spam plugins WILL cause problems. PLEASE deactivate Akismet and other similar plugins before activating Defensio.
Installation
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IMPORTANT: Deactivate Akismet and/or any other anti-spam plugins by going to your Plugins tab in the WordPress control panel. Simply click “deactivate” to deactivate the desired plugins.
Using multiple spam-filtering solutions will negatively impact Defensio’s performance.
Note: If are upgrading from an older version of Defensio, please deactivate the old plugin before proceeding with the upgrade. Moreover, please delete the old Defensio plugin directory from your server. Not doing so could lead to version conflicts.
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Copy the ‘defensio-anti-spam’ folder (unzipped from the file you downloaded) into ‘wp-content/plugins/’. You should now have a file called ‘defensio.php’ in ‘wp-content/plugins/defensio-anti-spam/’.
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Return to the Plugins tab in your control panel and activate Defensio.
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Under the Plugins tab, you will find a new tab called Defensio Configuration. Go there and enter your API key.
If the key turns green, this means it has been successfully validated. If you don’t have an API key, you can obtain one for free at http://defensio.com/signup.Under Defensio Configuration, you may also set the threshold level for “obvious spam” (this can be hidden from your spambox, at your option). We recommend you leave this “obvious spam” level at its default value (80%) until you get a feel for what a better value might be for your own purposes. You may also choose to enable automatic deletion of spam on old articles, though we do do not recommend this by default.
Note: If you’re upgrading from an older version of Defensio, the API key should be pre-populated for you.
- Your blog is now protected by Defensio’s enhanced spam filtering web service. From now on, all comments posted to your blog will be analyzed by Defensio and attributed a “spaminess” value that will help you sort and manage your Quarantine. Under your blog’s Comments tab, notice that the quarantine has been re-labelled “Defensio Spam”. Go there experience the Defensio goodness first-hand.
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