I don't believe it - my WordPress site got hacked !

They were posting comments with link backs to their sites, I've got anti-spam blah blah blah. Now to post a comment you have to leave an email address but there was no email address in the comment form when I looked at them from the admin screen. Strange.

So I turned commenting off but still I was getting comment spam.

Wordpress 3.3.1

No strange plugins.

I'm running my own servers not shared hosting (no other sites touched but none of them are on WordPress).

This tip probably applies to all versions of WP but when you export your content from one site to another the user id for anonymous users that have left a comment changes from zero to the authors' id.

This causes a problem if you have Gravatars enabled because it send the wrong email address to the Gravatar Site.

Weird !!!!

So I have finally got rid of Drupal as my choice of CMS and changed to WordPress.  OK I know that I'm still using a default theme but I have never claimed to be a designer.  As a company we still use Drupal for e-commerce sites although that may well change in the near future.  The majority of our commercial sites are built using Codeigniter or raw PHP which is of course my preferred option.

Why have you dropped Drupal you might well ask?