Defensio: Outsmarting Evil Spam

We just released a new version (1.6) of our WordPress plugin. (get it here)  It is a recommended update for everyone.

Many small things were improved and fixed, but the most interesting change is the better integration of the quarantine with WordPress 2.5 and up.  

We’ve been testing this new release for some time, but if you have any problem with this update, please let us know.

Happy blogging!

This morning, I had the joy to wake up to a wonderful review of Defensio. The author of the review, Holly Ord clearly loves what we’re doing. But more importantly, she really understands the comment spam problem, how Defensio works and why we’re better. I invite you to read her article entitled Tackling Comment Spam — For Good. It’s a great one.

This is, in my opinion, the best excerpt (of course, I’m totally biased ):

Defensio is a comment spam monitor and eliminator whose entire mission is based off of outsmarting evil spam, which it does miraculously. In my opinion, you cannot get any better than Defensio for taking the edge off when you’re thinking about how your website is doing and if any spam is leaking through.

Thanks Holly, that’s giving us some fuel to keep going!

If you’re blogging on Textpattern, rejoice! Walker Hamilton, a long time Defensio user, has recently released a plugin for your platform! Here’s the link.

We’re quite excited to bring the Defensio goodness to yet another platform. Big thanks to Walker for making this possible.