I've been getting a whole lot of comment spam for the past few months and it's really starting to get on my nerves so I've hired the help of a plugin called secureimage which now adds one of those semi-annoying hard to read images that you have to type in before you can place a comment (unless you have an account in which case it isn't required). I'm still going to keep on comment moderation for the time being but if it works well I'm hoping I can turn that off.

The plugin itself is pretty cool and uses imagemagik's convert untility to create the image. It adds a secureimage options tab in the options area of the wordpress administration as well which allows you to modify all the parameters of the image creation (by default it uses 8 character strings, so I turned that down to 3-5 characters).

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