A reader writes:

I’ve just read your interesting & useful piece about WordPress in the CILIP Gazette. I’ve been thinking about moving a couple of blogs off Blogger, as I want tag clouds … But a bit perturbed about your spam experience. You say you ‘got on top of it’ — but not how. Did you have to just use lots of filters in your email account? or did you find a way to stop your blog being spammed at all?

True enough, I had some problems with spam when I first experimented with WordPress. Torrents of it.

What I failed to point out in the article is that new versions of WordPress come with a nice little spam filter. I’ve just looked it up and its called Askismet. When I first started using WordPress there was no spam filter (or if there was, it was certainly not very effective). You should receive a lot less spam if you were to sign up to WordPress now.

FYI, email spam filters won’t do the job. While they will certainly stop WordPress spam coming to your email account, you still have an inbox within your WordPress which the spam will still get caught up in. And that’s not good!

More info on WordPress spam at the codex.

Not that I want to discourage you from moving to WordPress (it is a lot better than Blogger) you can build a tagcloud in Blogger if you like! Give this technique a try.