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Wordpress Too many spam comments, to my Email inbox, how to change email ?

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I am getting too many spam blog comments, to my hosting email account {for my domain}.

Where do i change this email address on my wordpress blog settings, so that the spam comments are going to another email address?

{I would like to link this up to one of my other crapper email addresses}. Where on wordpress do i go?
#change #comments #email #inbox #spam #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Do you use Akismet? If you use it, it'll catch a lot of that blog spam before WP sends you a notification message.
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    • Profile picture of the author entry
      yep i do, but they are clever spammers, and get through that.

      lol
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        Look under "Settings."
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        • Profile picture of the author entry
          Cheers.

          can i make this setting a Made up email

          madeUpEmail@gmail.com


          so that the spam comment approvals go to a fake email. any disadvantages of doing this?
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  • Profile picture of the author DMCAPROS
    You might miss out on important updates from WordPress but that should be the extent of the problems.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    Under Settings >> General.

    Yes you can use a dummy email as well, that is what I do to avoid spam on sites from where I do not wish to receive any emails.
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    • Profile picture of the author genietoast
      Set your comments to "moderate". So that way you get an email and see the comments before you decide to publish them, meaning you have to approve them first.

      Then you can set comments to a certain number of days. For example, after 14 days, no more comments.

      You can do that under the "discussion" tab in settings.

      Askimet Plugin is decent, but there's another plugin that's better: Growmap Anti-Spambot Plugin.
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