No one likes spam – except the spammers themselves, that is. If you’re running a WordPress blog, you probably already have at least one spam control installed, but if you are looking for another layer of protection, we’ve dug up seven great tools for that purpose. Some of these – with a little tweaking – can even fight the pingback spam that seems to be on the rise lately.

As with any WordPress plugins list, we do not recommend you install all of these due to the strain it might put on your hosting account. (7 tools for fighting spam)