Best Wordpress Comment Spam Solution?

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I'm getting notices to my email for 3 or 4 comments per site every day. I have to go manually log in and send them to spam. And I have several sites so this is a complete pain to do every day.

What do you recommend? Probably 99% of the comments are spam and almost all are obvious spam that I shouldn't have to deal with manually.

What's the best solution? A certain plugin? What do you guys use to keep from this hassle?
#programming #comment #solution #spam #wordpress
  • Oh I should add that most of these sites have WP-Spamfree installed. So all of these are coming through even with that installed. So that doesn't seem to be doing a good job.
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    • Turn off the settings that send you an email when comments come. I just had to do this on a couple of my blogs.

      Other than that, you could use Akismet. I think that's how it's spelled..

      I don't get why people still do spam comments. Are we missing something? How are they still beneficial.
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  • You could use WordPress › Akismet « WordPress Plugins , it`s a great comment checker for spammers.
  • Besides blocking those comment spam, that are another solution which to charge a small fees for comment review. Most spammer comment in your blog just for SEO benefits. Thus, why not charge a small fee, where you get some rewards for time that you spend for comment review, at the same time prevent all those unnecessary spam?
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    • I dont do a lot of wordpress, but in general, Captcha prevents the basic spammers, is there not a captcha plugin for wordpress comments?
  • Hi,

    Use Akismet.

    Link: Akismet anti-spam plugin for WordPress

    It will also help to get a captcha like Kevintb7 suggests. Akismet won't stop everything.
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    • Undoubtedly Akismet. They block for me any spam. And it comes by default with WP.
      The only incommodity is registration with them to activate your account.
  • Use Akismet and theses spam messages will become much easier to handle.You will be able to delete all your span at once.
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    • I'm using a free plugin "AVH First Defense Against Spam". It is very easy to use and you don't need configure anything - it works great out of box.

      Next thing to do is to disable trackbacks. Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> Discussion and uncheck second option "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).

      Next is to check if trackbacks are enabled on your pages and posts. So, for all your pages and posts that are published you need to disable tracbacks and pingbacks. Simply edit page and scroll down to uncheck this option (it is under Discussion section). If you don't see discussion section go to upper right corner of screen (in edit page/post screen), click Screen options button and tick Discussion to enable this section.

      Once set you will have far less spam comments.
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  • Akismet plugin and si captcha plugin always solve my problems. I recommend them.
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    Best Wordpress Comment Spam Solution?

    I'm getting notices to my email for 3 or 4 comments per site every day. I have to go manually log in and send them to spam. And I have several sites so this is a complete pain to do every day. What do you recommend? Probably 99% of the comments are spam and almost all are obvious spam that I shouldn't have to deal with manually.