Fighting Spam on a Diet - How to fix Akismet Performance Problems
Running into strange WordPress performance problems and database errors? Akismet could be the culprit, but we’re in luck, it’s an easy fix.
Earlier I wrote a bit about our encounter with vicious, robotic Chinese comment spammers. Since then we’ve had a few further issues, and I think I’ve found the culprit - Akismet, the plugin we’ve been using to fight the spam.