WordPress
Private
Akismet
The original WordPress anti-spam service.
MySQL
Security
Type
WordPress plugin / theme
Stack
PHP
Year
2005
Duration
Multi-year
Overview
What I built & why
Anti-spam service for WordPress comments, contact forms, and registrations. Built by Automattic; bundled with WordPress core.
Free for personal sites; commercial license for business use. Catches the overwhelming majority of comment spam automatically.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ Bundled with WP core
- ✓ Free for personal use
- ✓ Comment + form spam filter
- ✓ Cloud-based detection
- ✓ Decades of training data
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
Mobile traffic was outpacing desktop two-to-one, yet the existing experience was effectively unusable below 768px.
The solution
Designed the new editor flow around the actual content patterns, with sane defaults and one-click publish targets.
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