Mollom Adds WordPress And Joomla Support To Their Anti-Spam SolutionMollom Adds WordPress And Joomla Support To Their Anti-Spam Solution

Mollom, a content management system plug-in designed to block comment spam and junk user accounts, has had a good few weeks. It just announced the release of a WordPress plug-in, following closely on the heels of Joomla support earlier this month.Add to that native Drupal support (Mollom was co-created by Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal), and you've got a solution that makes a big splash and offers a lot of flexibility.

Here's a succinct description of how the solution works from the Mollom site:

In addition to aforementioned support for Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, developer libraries exist for a number of languages, including Java, Ruby, Python, Microsoft .Net, and PHP5. A determined developer should be able to take advantage of these to include Mollom support in relevant applications.

We discussed Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam, two similar solutions, a few weeks ago, but these most recent plug-ins really put Mollom right into the middle of the fray. Although I haven't yet seen anyone set up an independent spam-blocking showdown between these three, I'd love to see the results.

Mollom is still in public beta, but you can download it and try it out now. It's a good time to be in the market for an automated spam-blocking solution, as Mollom, Akismet, and TypePad AntiSpam are all inexpensive (or free) and worthy of evaluation.