Wordpress Spam

Gawd, I thought I had an issue with email spam, but every day, I login to my WP control panel and I have upwards of 30 SPAM messages on my blog and usually NOT ONE good one. How do I deal with this. I always mark All as Spam and get rid of them, but no improvement. In fact it gets worse every day.

Anybody have some insights for this weary clicker?

Plugins help. I like Captcha! and Spam Karma. Spam Karma alone is probably enough. Akismet is another popular choice.

wordpress usually comes with akismet installed as standard but you need to sign up with wordpress.com to get an API key to activate it.

I find this alone catches most spam comments.

I don't think just marking the comments as spam makes it learn what is spam.

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Thanks both of you for responding. I've installed Spam Karma and I'm liking it so far.

Happy April Fools day - die spam fools!