What You Are Doing To Prevent Comment Spam?

Akismet is the best plugin for this, but there are others that are quite good. I've had success with an "invisible CAPTCHA" (javascript checksum) plugin, but can't remember the name right now.

Comment spammers are probably using tools like Scrapebox to find WordPress blogs and mass post to them.

Paul I dont want to stop comments as I want to engage with my readers. Its a Q&A type site

I use Disqus. Haven't had a spam comment yet.

Akismet. And also having Wordpress installed on my android phone so I can delete undetected spam comments immediately.

Get rid of the spot that allows them to place a URL and don't allow HTML in the comments. No links and you will see a lot less spam.

Use an iframe like Facebook so it's not junking up your on-page SEO.

I've seen Livefyre on some sites, and FB comments is also an option. In some cases these external services have decreased the number of comments significantly, but it depends on your content and website.

Hello all,

I turned comments off in wordpress blogs through admin->setting->discussion.

But there are lots of comments coming which are almost spam. How to stop them and clean my blog by removing spam comments?

Share your views and experiences.Thanks in advance.

Besides using Akismet, use Disqus as a commenting platform and allow client side rendering of comments. This way even if some comments manage to appear with hyperlinks in it, even then they (links) wont be find by SEs and will not hurt you rankings.

Don't use third party commenting sites like Disqus, LiveFyre etc. They will slow down your site as well as you really don't own the comments as they are stored on that services' servers.

Akismet is a failure and it sends genuine comments to spam folder too. I have long been researching regarding stopping comments on my blogs and now I have won over spam. I don't receive even a single spam comment. I don't use Akismet nor I use any third party commenting system. Here is what I have done.

1. I have installed WP No-bot Question plugin
2. I have removed website field from comment form

WP No-bot plugin is a champion but unluckily all themes don't support it. If your theme doesn't support this plugin, then you need to add its field manually to comment form. It requires a little effort, but once you do it, it guarantees that you will never see even a single spam comment again.

To remove URL field from comment form, you need to paste below code in your theme's functions.php file. Paste the code after <?php

Here is the code:
remove_filter('comment_text', 'make_clickable', 9);
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered');
function url_filtered($fields)
{
if(isset($fields['url']))
unset($fields['url']);
return $fields;
}

This will remove URL field as well as will make links in comment section unclickable. If you need to make a link clickable, put the link as HTML.

Again the code works with only a few themes as well as editing functions.php file in some themes breaks down the entire site. So be cautious about this. Try the plugin first, install it, activate it and see if a question box appears in comment form or not. After installing the plugin, you need to set the questions from Settings>WP No-bot Question

I hope it helps. I wrote these LONG instructions to help you out as this issue once frustrated me a lot.

Excellent Rehmat! I am rushing back to my website to give the plugin a try. Thanks a lot buddy...

It works! And just a parallel question. Now I have two anti spam filters activated. Akismet and No Bot. Do you think I should change questions parameters every month? Or you are using same questions and having success over the months?

The best way to give readers your quality content without spammers interfering is by delivering your blogs directly to your readers. If you integrate an email marketing software to your Wordpress site, you can email your blogs to all the readers that subscribe to your site. So only the reader can read it, and no spammers can get in the way!

There are so many plugins in wordpress, but I prefer and recommend AKISMET. It is the best plugin which i am using and very much satisfy.

Yesterday I got some commends in game website .. I think most of them are spam ..

That's a terrible piece of advice. I was about to ask wether you did even read the article you linked, but you seem to be advertising your own crap.

Not only is this guy deleting every legit comment on his site, but he's doing it directly from the database. It's not "fighting spam comments", but getting rid of commenting functionality in a needlessly destructive manner.

I use Akismet Plugin

Lots of Akismet lovers. Even though I do believe Akismet is good but to prevent spams we should use something like WP No Bot simultaneously Akismet.