Dealing with WordPress Spam - Help!
I'm relatively new to blogging and I'm using WordPress.
Just lately I'm being inundated with, I guess, automated spam comments directed at one particular post. I've got the option to 'Approve' comments from new contributors before they show enabled. But it's a time consuming and frustrating business and a bandwidth hog.
I know I can ban certain words in the comments, url, etc. But do other, more experienced users, know of a more efficient method?
Thanks.
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1. Get the Akismet plugin, if you have not already done so.
2. Get Spam Karma 2. This has a handy blacklist function which can be used to blacklist comments from particlar IP ranges/ specific addresses / linking to particular domains. Not only this, but the blacklists build up automatically when it finds spam.
3. Use Bad Behaviour. This blocks a certain proportion of bots from playing on your site.
I generally get around 30+ spam comments/day, but the only ones that ever make it through this are the pingbacks/trackbacks (usually from scraper splogs) - I need a specific plugin to handle these - but even without that Spam Karma 2 allows me to blacklist these domains if they crop up regularly.
And if you find any other good ones, do tell!
Jack Pickard The Pickards Information Services| Blog | Twit
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Thanks Jack.
Somehow, I just knew you'd respond with the required info!
Cheers!
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Wow...I'm officially impressed!
Only had Bad Behaviour installed for 15 minutes and it blocked 3 spambots.
I've also installed the other 2 you recommended.
Thanks...I'm officially
very happy again!!
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Askimet is pretty good on its own, it only makes false positives when combined with other spam plugins (posted today!)
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I've been using Akismet eversince I started blogging 3 years ago. So far, it has blocked a lot of spam comments.Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. --Mitchell Kapor
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I am also using Askimet for my sites. So far so good. But I presume that people having blogs for a long time with a lot of trafic can say if it is enough to use Askimet alone or if it is necessary to use several plugins together.
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Nice info.. I've been using Akismet and its really good. I'll also try and observed the other two that was suggested.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for those plugins. I finally can deal with the amount of spam comments I get now. Do you know if there is a mass comment delete plugin? I ask because I have over 15000 comments and 99.9999% are spam.
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