There are so many unwanted, unsolicited and irrelevant comments on every blog posts I published. And it’s very disturbing. I should find a way to at least minimize these spam comments.
Yes, I could do manual deletion of comments, but that could take much time considering the amount of unwanted comments coming in.
What are ‘Spam Comments’?
I found this:
Blog spam, is spamming on weblogs. ..placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer’s commercial web site.
In short, spam comments are irrelevant comments which contain links to their website, and mostly run by an automated software.
Now that we have information about Spam Comments. Let’s find an answer on how to minimize or even control spam comments – reCAPTCHA is the answer.
What is WP-reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a WordPress Plugin, an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuously typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a different approach.
How to install reCAPTCHA?
There are two ways to install this WP plugin reCAPTCHA. First is the manual installation. Download the reCAPTCHA plugin, and manually install it to your server using the FTP server, which takes much time and effort.
And secondly, automated installation. All you need to do is log in to your blog, on your dashboard look for the Plugin section, click ‘Add New‘ and then type the name of the plugin on the search box (or you could also upload the zip file by clicking the ‘Upload‘ link on the tab). And then activate the plugin.
After activation of the Plugin
The reCAPTCHA plugin requires a ‘key’ to run, so you need to register to get a free the key, visit the plugin’s website for more details.
You can see the reCAPTCHA plugin on the comment section. Be sure that you entered the correct word, or you will not be able to post your comments. 
So there you go! Let me know also other options you have tried to control spam comments.
***Update (September 02): I just received an email from Phil about “ridiculous reCaptcha image“, and I think it’s really r i d i c u l o u s but cute. LoL =)
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I will try to install the wp-captcha plug-in, it think it’s pretty useful in control for spam comments. Hope this works for me. Thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work.
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