This post originally appeared in Sergej Müller’s Google+ profile (in German) and is no longer accessible there. It’s now kept here by the Pluginkollektiv.

Spam comments in WordPress blogs are a plague. Antispam Bee is a WordPress plugin and provides lasting protection against spam.

For as long as Akismet is part of the company behind WordPress and is forced to be installed with every system upgrade, the worldwide popularity of Automattic’s antispam solution will not change. Due to unstable data protection, Akismet had to give up its shares (mainly in German-speaking countries) to the WordPress plugin Antispam Bee during the year. On more and more blogs, the smart, buzzing extension keeps watch and separates comments without storing the commentator’s data centrally abroad. Version 1.7 brings further protection tools for professional bloggers.

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