Spam is the worst thing that every blogger is worried about. Although there are many spam control plug-ins which help us in controlling spam none of them is 100% reliable here are the best available anti spam plug-ins which I have used and reviewed.

Akismet – This plug-in is developed by Auttomattic Company and it comes inbuilt with WordPress installation. It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.

WP-Ban – Most of the Spammers are bots which will comment from a particular IP and WP-Ban is very useful plug-in to avoid comments from particular IP’s and can be used to ban comments based on IP addresses.

WP-Spam Free – Once installed this plug-in will automatically delete comments and thing which I didn’t like in this plug-in is we can’t see the deleted comments.

reCaptcha – I personally hate captcha and at the same time I know that even my readers will hate that, but I hate Spam even more. reCAPTCHA is one of the best captcha plug-in. No doubt this is a great captcha plug-in, but I recommend this plug-in only for those blogs which will get lots of spam comments, as users will lose interest in commenting at your blog if you use captcha at your blog. So use this at your own risk.

Also read – Top 10 WordPress Plug-ins to make your site more user friendly!

Let us know if you know any other anti-spam plug-in that performs better.

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Firefox is the best browser in the industry and especially when it comes to blogger’s I can say that this is a must have as it has loads of addons to make the things more productive and easy.

EasyComment -  This addon is specially designed for those who comments more on blogs. This helps you to comment easily on other blogs by single click. It automatically fills in the comment form and your regular text you for comments.

Easy Comment Addon For Firefox

Yoono – This add-on brings all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use sidebar. You can get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more – all at once! This add-on simplifies your online social life.

Yoono for Firefox

FireFTP – FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. FireFTP also includes advanced features like directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more…

FireFTP Addon for Firefox.

ScribeFire – It is an alternative to Windows Live Writer. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. It allows you to easily post & edit your blog and has many features. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

Scribe Fire plugin for Firefox

SEO Quake – Seo Quake is a Mozilla Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization (SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seo Quake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet. It has lot more features than SEO for Firefox plug-in.

Seo Quake plugin for Firefox

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