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Please help with Wordpress Spam

by GeorgR.
10 replies
Yes, i am using Akismet and WP Spam-Free, no-brainer.

The problem is i am literally getting many thousands of "please approve comment" to my email....with a high number of blogs and comments its literally impossible to manage them or manually approve them.

I just see that on all my blogs "author must have previous comment approved for comment to appear" was set by default.

What are the right settings/plugins so i do get the good comments automatically approved but the spam NOT? And i don't want to get zillions of "please approve" emails anymore.
#spam #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author oliverwinston
    I haven't found an easy solution. The spam is from automated robots and everytime there is a wp fix the spam gets reduced until the spambot coders upgrade their software. Let us know if you find a more effective method than akismet.
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    I have added the plugin WP-ban to all my blogs. As people spam me, I add their I.P. address to the banned I.P. list and after just a few weeks (it takes a little patience), the torrent of spam rapidly diminishes. In fact, for me, it's been 99% wiped out.

    Another trick I use is to add every new offender to the banned I.P. list in ALL my blogs, this often catches offender proactively. The plugin keeps a record of all subsequent blocked spams and some I.P. addresses show thousands of blocked attempts. I have several of 3k+

    Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark_w
    Have you tried adding a Captcha field to make sure everyone posting a comment is a real person.
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I am not familiar with the WP Spam Free, but I use Peters's Custom Anti Spam plugin (with Captcha) and it seems to work very well.
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    • Profile picture of the author rakoom2002
      Like Mark said, Captcha's can be a pain in the butt for real users but they help weed out bots from even trying to submit comments for approval. Im sure your readers will understand/
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      • Profile picture of the author radhika
        I use

        Akismet and
        SI Captcha Anti-spam plug-in

        Works for me.

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        • Profile picture of the author Jeremyc
          Originally Posted by radhika View Post

          I use

          Akismet and
          SI Captcha Anti-spam plug-in

          Works for me.

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          I agree that is what i use and i hardly get any spam
          You should try using these there a good combo together.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4freedom
    I think this depends entirely on the type of blogs you are creating. If you are building real blogs wherein you want participation and comments - we have almost zero spams coming in with WP-SPAM and having all comment authors will out name/email and have an approved comment already to post. All posts go to a moderator first. We have ping-backs turned off.

    For "auto-blogs" we simply turn off comments/pings and use WP-SPAM and get zero as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    The setting I use that makes it very easy to manage is anyone can post but must enter email address and also make sure your posting form uses a Captucha which makes it much more difficult for the bots to get through.

    So here is how it looks.

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