Wordpress Comment Moderation & Spam Control

by CathyG
8 replies
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!
#anti-spam #blog #comment #comment moderation #control #moderation #spam #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
    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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    • Profile picture of the author CathyG
      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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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    Peters Anti-Spam Plugin will help out a great deal and it is a free plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    Akismet works fine... and its free.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Collins
    They want you to get a commercial API key if you make over $500 a month from your Akismet protected blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author CathyG
    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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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    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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