As a WordPress user of over 8 years with over 100 WordPress blogs I’ve seen my fair share of comment SPAM. Until yesterday I swore by Akismet comment SPAM plugin, have Akismet installed on all my WordPress blogs and thought it was blocking a lot of SPAM comments. Yesterday I discovered a serious Google SEO performance issue with Akismet v3.0. Akismet SPAM Plugin I’ve used Akismet as a matter of course for years, one of the first plugins I activate on a new WordPress install. However, Akismet v3.0 is adding three javascript files to the front end of posts with comments enabled. Don’t know exactly why Akismet needs these javascript files, I’m guessing some sort of SPAM honeypot. Akismet Honeypot […]

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