Although there are many different content management systems available to use, WordPress remains one of the most popular today and has won a couple of awards such as the Critic’s Choice Best Open Source PHP CMS and People’s Choice Best Free CMS in 2014. When many websites uses the WordPress platform, this will obviously attract spammers in creating a tool that can automatically spam links to the comment area in a post.

While there are also many antispam plugins to block comment and trackback spam, Akismet remains the top plugin being used to detect spam comments. However these antispam plugins are not perfect as there are times when a spammer finds a way to bypass antispam detection and manage to slip through a few spam comments. Other than that, an unhappy visitor might use these tools to flood a website with thousands of useless comments in hoping to overload the server and causing it to crash.

If one day you wake up to find thousands of spam or pending comments in your WordPress admin area, do not be afraid because there are easy ways to quickly delete the comments. If the spam comments keeps coming in, you should first configure your website to stop accepting any comments.
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I’ve been able to publish new articles on my blog and sometimes I do save them up before publishing for editing/updating it later. For no reason, I was unable to save an article which I was working on. When I click on the “Save Draft” button in my WordPress, I get the “Error 406, Not Acceptable. An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server” error.

This problem has caused me to lose all my writings on the post and clicking the Back button on the web browser does not recover the text that I’ve typed. That is why it is important for anyone who uses WordPress to install a plugin called Lazarus where it saves everything you typed in a web form and allows quick recovery if for some reason the web form got cleared out. Lazarus works on Firefox, Chrome and Safari. After getting the 406 error, I tried writing a new article with any random story and this time was able to save! I researched the cause of this problem and found the solution.
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