Been getting a lot more spam lately, and Akismet fails to catch them. Have 1000+ caught by Akismet, and 300+ which are spam, but not caught by Akismet. And that over the last 3 days. That’s too bad for Akismet, or too good for the spammers. Have re-activated HashCash plugin, so let’s see what happens in the next few days.
On the other hand, popularity contest, the plugin that shows the most popular posts on the right, has a known issue. WordPress seems to have an issue with spam comments. So the posts which have more comments, even if they are marked as spam and not shown, will come up higher on the list. So the list you see on the right, are mostly pages, that are hit most often by spammers!
Got to check if the latest version fixes this, else fix it myself! I am bugged by this bug! Anyone got any fixes?
ok, so I am not the only one facing this problem. But the spam count is a bit low on my blog so i am really not all that bugged about it.
If you are using Popularity Contest, and have messed up counts of comments etc, you can use the “Reset Comments/Trackback/Pingback counts” option under “Options – Popularity”.
I had tried that earlier, but it did not work. Now when I decided to get into it and fix the problem, it worked!
Clicking on that button, actually recounts all the comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for each posts. And updates the totals accordingly. This should cleanup your Most Popular listings!