{"id":4406,"date":"2016-07-25T03:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2016-07-22T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:21:22","slug":"why-pay-when-you-can-get-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2016\/07\/25\/why-pay-when-you-can-get-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pay When You Can Get Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4361\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Depositphotos_1386103_s-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Depositphotos_1386103_s-2015-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Time is Money! When It Comes to Deleting Spam Comments\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Depositphotos_1386103_s-2015-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Depositphotos_1386103_s-2015-148x200.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Depositphotos_1386103_s-2015.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time is Money! When It Comes to Deleting Spam Comments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone likes a bargain! Sometimes however you&#8217;ll want to pay for an app or WordPress plugin that is really valuable, but why pay when you can get one that does the trick for\u00a0free?<\/p>\n<p>I deleted Askimet as my spam plugin in WordPress when they moved to pay to play and really tried to wring $5 a month out of their users after years of free service. I understand that everyone needs to make a buck, but in the world of WordPress what they offered was not unique.<\/p>\n<p>I searched for spam filtering plugins. I found <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/cleantalk-spam-protect\/\">Cleantalk<\/a> and tried it for the seven day free trial period. I liked the interface, but just did not feel that paying for it was worth it to me. Cleantalk bills $8 per year. Not a lot, but free is free.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am trying out the free WordPress plugin Anti Spam Bee. This plugin appears free &#8211; well at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Before you buy of any plugin, make sure to try it out. I may be back with Cleantalk, but for now I am going free, free, free with the big yellow bee of Anti Spam Bee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone likes a bargain! Sometimes however you&#8217;ll want to pay for an app or WordPress plugin that is really valuable, but why pay when you can get one that does the trick for\u00a0free? I deleted Askimet as my spam plugin in WordPress when they moved to pay to play and really tried to wring $5 a month out of their users after years of free service. I understand that everyone needs to make a buck, but in the world of WordPress what they offered was not unique. I searched for spam filtering plugins. I found Cleantalk and tried it for the seven day free trial period. I liked the interface, but just did not feel that paying for it was worth it to me. Cleantalk bills $8 per year. Not a lot, but free is free. Now I am trying out the free WordPress plugin Anti Spam Bee. This plugin appears free &#8211; well at least for now. Before you buy of any plugin, make sure to try it out. I may be back with Cleantalk, but for now I am going free, free, free with the big yellow bee of Anti Spam Bee. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,264,500,499],"tags":[187,501],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-nancy","category-application-reviews","category-wordpress-plugins","category-wordpress-websites","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4407,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}