Comments on: The Simplest Solution For Comment Spam

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:53:24 +0000

Heather,

I’m sorry to have steered you wrong! Hopefully you were able to recover okay? Thanks for the comment.

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How to avoid spam? | paul olyslager — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:04 +0000

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By: Peyton Stafford

Peyton Stafford — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:26:36 +0000

I have several blogspot blogs. There is a settings option that requires all comments to be mediated. So far, I’ve been able to stay on top of these, manually.

By: @_e_bomb

@_e_bomb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:58:27 +0000

Awesome! I am new to wordpress and have been noticing all the spam pile up. Cheers for the tip it came a the perfect time.

By: Heather Burlesci

Heather Burlesci — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:56:58 +0000

Thank you for the tip. I actually tried to do this and it crashed my site. It gave me a syntax error on line 10. I’m new to the blogging world so maybe I just did something incorrectly. I removed the code and am going to try using one of the suggested Word Press plugins instead. If you happen to know why I got this error, feel free to pass it on.

By: Mike McCready

Mike McCready — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:53:10 +0000

If you blog uses Wordpress, a tool that I would recommend is WP-Spamfree (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/) I use it and not only does it block comment SPAM, but also SPAM in my contact form. I’ve seen some sites use a CAPTCHA system, but I’ve never been a fan of them, but the plugin for Wordpress has worked great for me. Since I’ve installed the plugin, it has blocked 7,718 SPAM comments.

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:36:08 +0000

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By: Hal

Hal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:23:39 +0000

This is good. I don’t know why html is allowed in comments – its not that important as far as I can see. Hopefully an option to disable comment html will be built in to future WP versions.

The only issue I see here is updating your theme, or changing a theme.

By: Paul Olyslager

Paul Olyslager — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:26:43 +0000

This is a really good tip. Maybe a good idea to make it optional in the wp dashboard or something. Another way to stop spam is using “honeypots”. These are hidden empty textfields in your form. As you said, most of the spam is generated by bots and these have the tendency to fill in every possible textfield they can find, including the hidden one. Just have a look if the honeypot field is empty (by javascript) before submitting the comment. If it is empty you can submit the comment, if it is filled in the chances are high that a spambot is involved. Soon you will find a post about this on my blog as well.

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