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10 Plugins To Combat Comment Spam

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  1. Jeremy Clark (6 comments.) says:

    Just a thought but Bad Behavior isn’t quite compatible with WP 2.5. The new upload tool will fail when bad behavior is activated. A workaround is to add the IP net block you usually use wordpress from into the whitelist.inc.php file in the bad-behavior folder.

  2. Scott (21 comments.) says:

    I use a combination of Akismet, WP-SPAMFREE, Bad Behavior and now a GREAT comment form plugin called cformII (see this).

    Seems like a lot of “Stuff” but I went from a couple of hundred a week to about 1 or 2 per week. Now if I could only find something someway to deal with people who scrape my blog and the pingback spam…

  3. Viper007Bond (91 comments.) says:

    Actually, BB + SK2 with the Akismet SK2 plugin may be the ultimate solution. It allows SK2 to judge whether a comment is spam or not by additionally seeing what Akismet had to say. However, I found that many many times, Akismet would report a comment was ham even when it wasn’t.

    So, I recently started using Defensio just to try it out. In the 72 hours I’ve been using the plugin, it’s caught 430 spam and let just one into my moderation queue. No spam comments actually made it onto my blog.

    Pretty dang good if you ask me, plus hiding the obvious spam from the Defensio page in WordPress makes it way easy to make sure to false positives are occurring.

    I think I’ll be sticking with it. :)

  4. Viper007Bond (91 comments.) says:

    Ooof, I rewrote my comment a couple times and it didn’t turn out so good.

    Actually, BB + SK2 with the Akismet SK2 plugin may be the ultimate solution.

    I was responding to the “It’s been rumored that Akismet combined with Bad Behavior is the ultimate anti spam configuration in WordPress.” comment. Since my vote is currently with Defensio, I obviously didn’t mean BB + SK2 + SK2 Akismet was the best.

  5. Bob (8 comments.) says:

    As I’ve pointed out before, Akismet is not free for everyone. Its ridiculous $50 per month fee is out of reach for non-profit organizations operating on a shoestring budget. Instead, I simply turned off pings and require users to register to post comments. I’ve never gotten any spam at all.

  6. Mosey says:

    I use Akismet religiously. Do concede that it’s not (free) ideal for anything other than personal websites. Hadn’t realised that it was $50 per month though… quite a bit! Perhaps it might be worth getting together a petition to see if they might be able to change their pricing structure for different non-profit organisations.

  7. jonathan hickman (8 comments.) says:

    SK2 & BB are the best combo. Every time I read about akismet, I see the words “moderation queue.” Before turning on BB, I got about 20k spams a year. SK2 blocks them all and almost never puts anything in moderation.

    And I don’t know why you said it was old. It’s still in development, although that’s supposed to end soon thanks to WP’s inability to sit still.

  8. Mark Ghosh (386 comments.) says:

    This needs clarification because the $50 per month is not entirely correct information.
    From the Akismet Commercial Use page: http://akismet.com/commercial/
    – Free for personal use
    – $5 per month for problogger use (if you’re making more than $500/mo from your blog )
    – $50 per month for corporate ventures (a corporate blog or a blog network)
    There are other prices for registered Non Profits and for API access.

  9. daniel says:

    yes i really hate spam, Akismet can hold and count incoming spam but there not stop spam really.

  10. Bob (8 comments.) says:

    For an unregistered non-profit orgainization, Akismet costs $50 per month. That’s ridiculous for our all-volunteer operation. (Note that nonprofits with multi-million dollar budgets only have to pay $25 per month.)

  11. Tom says:

    hello, for the comment problem i found someday a plugin which i really would like to use. my pc crashed and so i have no link nor a search tag, please help me.

    this plugin swithes off the comments after a time period, so its not possible to post on older posts – i really would like to use it.

    can you help me with a link, does someone know what i mean, thx in advance

  12. alam (3 comments.) says:

    Good list, I just use akismet, regularly update it and still happy with it.
    Anyway, thanks for the list. Perhaps I can choose one for my naughty cousin blog :-)

  13. Frank C (1 comments.) says:

    I use Akismet (which does have significant false positive problems) and simply moderate all posts that contain a link. Since most comment spammers are greedy and will throw many links into a comment, they’re easy to screen out and either mark as spam to Akismet or to simply edit out the links in order to add new content to the page in Google’s eyes.

  14. Chris (26 comments.) says:

    Does anyone else use SpamBam? It seems to work great for me.

  15. Helen (1 comments.) says:

    We were using BB as well as Askimet for a while but it made our blogs run very slowly so we turned off BB. Has anyone else had this problem with BB?

  16. Napolux (5 comments.) says:

    You’d better try “Hiddy”. That’s the ultimate solution against SPAM. I used to get 60/70 spam comments per day, now I’m about 1 or two (and sometimes 0, yes ZERO).

    http://hiddy.etechs.it/

  17. Bob (8 comments.) says:

    Tom, you want a plugin called Close Old Posts.
    See http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....old-posts/

  18. Otto (215 comments.) says:

    “For an unregistered non-profit orgainization”

    Seems to me like you should register your organization then. Unregistered = unofficial. If you’re not registered, then they have no way to check up and see that you’re not defrauding them.

  19. Moreno says:

    WP SpamFree isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here’s a demonstration of how easy it is to defeat.

  20. Mobius (1 comments.) says:

    You left off Raven’s Anti-Spam (http://kahi.cz/blog/ravens-antispam-for-wordpress). Between that and Akismet, spam never gets through on my sites.

  21. Bob says:

    Otto, perhaps you’d like to volunteer your time to handle the paperwork for our organization to register us as a 501(c)(4) orgainization. All I do is run the web site as a volunteer, so I have no idea what’s involved.
    And my previous comment was wrong. Multi-million dollar charities get to use Akismet for FREE, while our organization with a budget that barely hits five figures would have to pay $600 per year.
    But I don’t know that it matters, because it looks like the upgrade to 2.5 will be such a PITA that I’m leaning toward dropping WordPress entirely.

  22. Michael Schuerlein (1 comments.) says:

    I was getting anywhere from 10-20 a day with Akismet, so I installed Bad Behavior and I have not gotten one all week. Kind of funny that this post pops up after my own positive experience!

  23. noel (1 comments.) says:

    hi. not trying to be picky and all but in number 6 captcha godfather shouldn’t the last sentence read “and held for moderation.” and not “and held for moderation.” ?

    that’s it. no need to publish this comment publicly. and thank you for the good article.

  24. Palooza (1 comments.) says:

    Though it’s not on your list, I have found TanTanNoodles exceedingly helpful. It’s a simple plugin that gets 99% of the spam out there – it gets rid of comments with lots of links, just links, or if they contain certain words.

  25. WebGeek (1 comments.) says:

    @Moreno: Later updates to the WP-SpamFree plugin overcame the concerns that Adam brought to light in that blog post.

  26. Ben says:

    Great post! Gotta fight the forces of the evil spammers and their spambot henchmen! Keep up the great work!

  27. Tom says:

    wonderful bob, thanks alot – that is exactly what i was looking for …and its so simple “closing old posts”…
    sometimes i wonder why i got a head on my shoulders :)

  28. jonathan hickman (8 comments.) says:

    On the subject of spam fighting, does anybody know of a good way to retroactively fight spam? Is there anyway to go through old comments and take out the spam that was ignored by a previous admin?

  29. Matt Ellsworth (4 comments.) says:

    i use the wp-spam-free and it works great! It saves me from hundreds of spam comments per day.

  30. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

    I just don’t like having to moderate comments. I don’t have the time to check my blog for spam everyday, so I turn the moderation feature OFF in wordpress, and I always have.

    The only problem is, I get so few comments on my blog that aren’t spam, I’d rather just be notified via email when someone makes a comment to my blog, but i have no idea how to do all that? I just use bad behavior and askimet, and both those together work fine for me, I haven’t noticed any comment spam in forever after installing those two, except I am getting tired of spammers signing up for new user accounts, wordpress needs to do something about that.

  31. Elliott Back (15 comments.) says:

    You should really check out the latest WP Hashcash at http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/ which offers an infinitely more sophisticated Javascript-based antispam solution than WP Spam Free. The latest features include rudimentary trackback blocking and a nice admin configuration panel.

    And it’s transparent. Turn it on, configure it for “delete,” make sure it’s working, and kiss your moderation queue goodbye. Your visitors won’t even notice.

  32. Adam (1 comments.) says:

    bubazoo, just turn off new user registration.

    #11 on the list should be “something custom.” The best defense against spam is to have something customized on your blog, even if it’s simple. Spammers don’t want to retool their bot to attack a single blog.

  33. Dan says:

    I agree with a recent post i read about the fact the captcha as not the ideal protection methods against zombies. Zombies has the computing power to break it, its just a matter of time and resource. If it economics for spammers than it will be done.

  34. Didier says:

    @bubazoo: Alternatively you can use my plugin Sabre that is designed to protect WordPress blogs against spammer bots registration. Thus, you can let the new user registration turned on.

  35. Matt Keegan (8 comments.) says:

    Akismet has been doing a stellar job for me, but I’ll consider one or two back ups just in case. Most are new to me, so I’ll have to experiment to see which ones work best.

  36. Jim Sansi (1 comments.) says:

    I actually did a write up and followup on my blog about this some time ago… Using the comment timeout plugin virtually eliminated all of the automated spammers.

    It’s an incredibly simple solution.

  37. Eric Wolf (1 comments.) says:

    Very interested article and comments… I have been using Akismet for a number of different word press blogs – unaware that I am incurring nay costs – I am going to have to remove the program because of the potential hidden costs. So far Akismet has not noticed – but I clearly am gong to have to use a different system to protect the various blogs from spam.



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