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WordPress comment spam stoppage techniques

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  1. Colin D. Devroe (2 comments.) says:

    I have one, me me me: :)

    http://theubergeeks.net/2004/0.....ration-03/

    It allows the blogger to set a time when they would like all entries to be automatically moderated.

  2. ian (1 comments.) says:

    I’ve got a couple of hacks that I use on my (low traffic) site that help out. One is to display a ‘Pending’ message whilst a comment is awaiting approval so the genuine submitter knows they don’t need to send it again, and the other means that something has to be put into each of the 3 fields as I was getting a lot of posts that were a mass of smiley faces with no real message in them.

    They’re not going to win awards, but if you’re collecting stuff then here you go !

    http://minimal.cx/category/wordpress/


    ian.

  3. Geof (19 comments.) says:

    Mark: The default WP processes you note stop 99% of the spam that I get, honestly.

    FWIW, I’ve written up a short tutorial with screen caps to show how to kill a pile of trapped comment spam in WP 1.2.

  4. John Gray (1 comments.) says:

    Sent a trackback ping but it failed, so I’ll leave a comment. I’m wondering if using google bombs on popular spam words might be a fun and effective way to fight back. http://www.stupidsimple.org/bl.....ment-spam/

  5. Tim McGuire (2 comments.) says:

    I haven’t tried this as I have yet only had a few comment spams, but what about renaming the HTML fields for comment, name, url, etc so that the spiders don’t know what key-value pairs should be in the request…. and adding more buttons so that the correct button to press for submit is obvious to visitors, but not obvious to a spider? If every wordpress blog had different request parameters for comments, that would be really tough to program a spider.

  6. Ayush (1 comments.) says:

    Try implementing:
    http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP.....es-in-PHP/

  7. Mark (34 comments.) says:

    That has already been implemented.

  8. Lisa (1 comments.) says:

    Rename wp-comments-post.php and 2 other files to stop autobot spamming: http://www.blogs-about.com/sup.....c.php?t=97

  9. Elliott Back (15 comments.) says:

    Here’s a modified version of Matt’s Stopgap plugin that moves the md5 computation to the client, preventing all automatic spam. It also makes the md5 vary by hour, by client, etc, so those bot networks will be unable to penetrate your precious comments.

    http://elliottback.com/wp/arch.....p-extreme/

  10. Nick (11 comments.) says:

    Mark,
    After getting a handle on my comment spam using Elliott’s plugin, now I’m getting hit by trackback spammers!! I was thinking about just creating a simple plugin that would send trackbacks and pingbacks automatically into moderation, since it doesn’t really matter to me if these do not show up on the blog right away like I want my comments to. I was thinking that you might have an idea on how to fight these things, since you always come up with good plugins. Tonight I’ll try to whip up plugins to do what I mentioned though.

  11. Mark says:

    I am facing the same problem right now. I think there will have to be a plugin that pumps all trackback/pingback traffic through the comment posting functions. Let me know if you think of anything.

  12. oso (3 comments.) says:

    I’m getting completely trackback attacked and it’s ugly. Some help please.

  13. xunleashed (1 comments.) says:

    The best one I have seen so far is a heuristic approach. They scanned in comments and would flag any that failed to be verified. Only other way is to just dissable comments after a few days.

  14. Merkal (1 comments.) says:

    I was bombed by 25 spam commments. deleted them all and blocked the IP they came from.

  15. Nick says:

    where read about it in russian

  16. Alex Bogoslav (1 comments.) says:

    How can this:
    “Force the user to fill out their name and email before they are allowed to post a comment”
    help stop spammers???

  17. SEO (1 comments.) says:

    My main concern is that you can’t guarantee every page of your website will be included in the SERPs. Considering I’m constantly adding new products to my company’s website, I need to be sure that customers can find them as soon as possible.http://www.seoptimizerz.com

  18. Dima (1 comments.) says:

    Hi, I propose my own made wordpress modification.
    http://www.goplayme.com/posts/.....ments.html

  19. Laura Rednose (1 comments.) says:

    Great stuff, thanks for the tips, these comment spam stoppage techniques will really help me with my new funny stuff blog.

  20. Teddy (1 comments.) says:

    Unfortunately, a lot of people respond unthinkingly and unwittingly, becoming their own trolls. I have spent hours agonizing over how to respond to a few comments in my time, wanting to keep things level and fair and host free speech and opinions, but sometimes censorship wins, something I struggle with all the time. Luckily, WordPress allows me to put comments into moderation until I decide, giving me the time I need to battle out my inner debate.

  21. Doug (1 comments.) says:

    I just rolled out this free spam blocker, it eliminates all the problems of people having to read a captcha and all you gotta do is upload and activate. Check out the post I made on it, http://amazingwordpressthemes......m-blocker/

  22. Matthias (2 comments.) says:

    I’ve made my own spam stopping plugin. In fact it’s a WordPress client for Mollom, a new anti spam service founded by Dries Buytaert of Drupal, to WordPress.

    Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mollom/

    Mollom.com is a new spam deterring service. It blocks spam effectively. As a plus, false positives are reduced to virtually 0. The site admin doesn’t need to retrieve valid comments back from spam hell, as a bonus.

    How does it do that?

    When in doubt, Mollom will rather present a safe CAPTCHA to the commenter. As long as the CAPTCHA isn’t solved, the comment will never be saved.

    Aside, Mollom is an intelligent self-teaching service. It will learn from it’s mistakes and the comments that it checks. Making it better as it’s being used more and more.

    More information on their site: Mollom



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