a plugin.  There are a ton of options available and popular plugins include Akismet, Spam Free, JSSpamBlock, etc. In three years our website has blocked 128,000+ spam comments. The good news is I don't have to worry about any of it.  My spam blocker does it all for me.  And in that time frame, I've only had about five real comments mismarked as spam. How Many Cobwebs are in Your Website? As I go to post this article, I'm reminded WordPress just came out with another update in the last few weeks.  This means I, myself, have some cobwebs.  Thanks to BackupBuddy I could quickly create a back up of my website and then update the WordPress core, Genesis core, and a number of plugins. Easy peasy and well worth the effort to protect my website and my online identity. Rebecca is founder of Web Savvy Marketing. With over a decade of experience in internet marketing, she specializes in website design, WordPress consulting, organic SEO, and social media marketing. She also teaches Social Media Boot Camp, Blogging Boot Camp, and SEO Boot Camp. Comments It appears that WP-DB-Backup only does backups. Which plugin do you recommend for db optimization? WP-Optimize has over 200k downloads, but DB -- Optimize has been updated more recently. Bryan Headrick recently posted.. What is WordPress? Bryan WP-DB-Backup optimizes, repairs, and backs up the MySQL database. I use this plugin to optimize my MySQL database each day and repair it each week. I use BackupBuddy to