Martin Lormes

<p><em>Block Top Spammers</em> displays a list of your top spammers’ IP addresses, based on all comments in your database that are marked as spam. It also generates a blacklist for your <code>.htaccess</code> file to block those spammers from your website entirely, thus taking load off the server. – You will need another plugin (like <a href="http://akismet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Akismet</a>) to identify the spam.</p>
<p>PHP 5 and Apache required.</p>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<h4>0.6 (April 2010)</h4>
<ul>
<li>edit blacklist (i.e. remove individual addresses, manually add addresses and/or subnets)</li>
<li>manually override .htaccess location</li>
<li>customize 403 error shown to blocked spammers</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0 (May 2010)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi-Site support (WordPress 3.0, maybe WPMU 2.8/2.9)</li>
</ul>


Block Top Spammers

Block Top Spammers displays a list of your top spammers' IP addresses. It also generates a blacklist for your .htaccess file.

scribu

<p>Whenever I visit my site’s dashboard, the first thing I see is the bold red Spam count.</p>
<p>Instead of wasting time deleting spam comments, I prefer to let Akismet do that automatically, so I don’t need to see how many spam comments there are.</p>
<p>This little plugin simply hides that part.</p>
<p>Links: <a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/hide-spam-count" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin News</a> | <a href="http://scribu.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a></p>


Hide Spam Count

Hide the annoying spam count from the Dashboard.

Block Top Spammers vs Hide Spam Count