Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control

CathyG · 12-31-2008, 10:31 PM

Hope this is the right place to ask:

Need recommendation for anti-spam plug-in for Wordpress blog. Is Akismet worth the
fee? I saw Bad Behavior listed.

My current theme shows only 20 comments per page in the Moderation Queue - my former
theme showed 100. Is this easy to change? I've got someone who knows how to read the CSS.

Thanks!

Tenzo · 12-31-2008, 10:48 PM

I use askimet on all my blogs, and love it. I've never had to pay a fee, I just got the key by signing up at wordpress.com. Sorry I can't help with the theme question.

Regards,
Kevin

CathyG · 01-01-2009, 02:29 AM

They ask you to pay if your blog is commercial. I'm on wordpress.org, not com.
Thanks for the reply-- echoes what I am hearing elsewhere

VegasGreg · 01-01-2009, 06:23 AM

Peters Anti-Spam Plugin will help out a great deal and it is a free plugin.

jrsencio · 01-01-2009, 06:31 AM

Akismet works fine... and its free.

Leanne King · 01-01-2009, 06:56 AM

WP Spam Free rocks

John Collins · 01-01-2009, 07:50 AM

They want you to get a commercial API key if you make over $500 a month from your Akismet protected blog.

CathyG · 01-01-2009, 12:49 PM

Thanks to all! I am trying out Akismet (got the key from wordpress.com). So far it's very easy to use ad to delete the spam all at once - very fast. Will check out other options and many thanks.

~kev~ · 01-01-2009, 01:24 PM

I edited all of my wordpres themes to remove the comments sections, disabled comments globally, disabled new memberships - I then installed a forum in a /forum subfolder. When I post an article in wordpress, I create a thread in the forum for the discussion of the article and link the 2 together.

Members only have one account, and that is in the forum. The spam conrtols of the forum software are a lot better then what is built into wordpress.

In other words, I use wordpress as a landing page / content management system / blog - what ever you want to call it. And the forum is used for the community and for the discussion of the articles.

For the spammers, I use ReCapthcah in the forums, pkus I have blocked a lot of networks out of asia.

This also allows me to use 2 different domain names, with a forum on one site and wordpress blog, that asts like a portal to the forum.

12-31-2008, 10:31 PM	#1
CathyG Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 28 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking Contact Info	Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control Hope this is the right place to ask: Need recommendation for anti-spam plug-in for Wordpress blog. Is Akismet worth the fee? I saw Bad Behavior listed. My current theme shows only 20 comments per page in the Moderation Queue - my former theme showed 100. Is this easy to change? I've got someone who knows how to read the CSS. Thanks!
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12-31-2008, 10:48 PM	#2
Tenzo Mentat War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ,PA , USA. Posts: 410 Thanks: 222 Thanked 48 Times in 46 Posts Contact Info	Re: Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control I use askimet on all my blogs, and love it. I've never had to pay a fee, I just got the key by signing up at wordpress.com. Sorry I can't help with the theme question. Regards, Kevin
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CathyG Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 28 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control They ask you to pay if your blog is commercial. I'm on wordpress.org, not com. Thanks for the reply-- echoes what I am hearing elsewhere
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01-01-2009, 06:23 AM	#4
VegasGreg Greg Schueler War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 2,101 Thanks: 192 Thanked 398 Times in 292 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control Peters Anti-Spam Plugin will help out a great deal and it is a free plugin.
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01-01-2009, 12:49 PM	#8
CathyG Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 28 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control Thanks to all! I am trying out Akismet (got the key from wordpress.com). So far it's very easy to use ad to delete the spam all at once - very fast. Will check out other options and many thanks.
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01-01-2009, 01:24 PM	#9
~kev~ Advanced Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 921 Thanks: 26 Thanked 146 Times in 130 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control I edited all of my wordpres themes to remove the comments sections, disabled comments globally, disabled new memberships - I then installed a forum in a /forum subfolder. When I post an article in wordpress, I create a thread in the forum for the discussion of the article and link the 2 together. Members only have one account, and that is in the forum. The spam conrtols of the forum software are a lot better then what is built into wordpress. In other words, I use wordpress as a landing page / content management system / blog - what ever you want to call it. And the forum is used for the community and for the discussion of the articles. For the spammers, I use ReCapthcah in the forums, pkus I have blocked a lot of networks out of asia. This also allows me to use 2 different domain names, with a forum on one site and wordpress blog, that asts like a portal to the forum.
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