{"id":8900,"date":"2005-04-26T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/26\/comment-spam\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T12:44:59","slug":"fighting-spam-in-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/26\/fighting-spam-in-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting spam in comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been getting some spam in the comments recently. I must say that since the upgrade to WordPress<\/a> the amount of spam I am getting has drastically decreased, but it hasn’t disappeared. Fighting spam in comments and trackbacks, it turns out, is yet another area where WordPress rules.<\/p>\n

WordPress has some built-in mechanisms<\/a> for combatting spam, as well as a number of external tools, hacks, and plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the time being, I have enabled premoderation for comments matching certain words<\/a>. I have also checked all options except for ‘An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)’, which I don’t want to do at the moment.<\/p>\n

Let me know if new settings cause any problems.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/ins> This is a quick update to let everyone know that changes helped a lot. I am getting all those comments which used to show up in my “Waiting for approval” queue. I mark them as spam and off they go. WooHoo! :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been getting some spam in the comments recently. I must say that since the upgrade to WordPress the amount of spam I am getting has drastically decreased, but it hasn’t disappeared. Fighting spam in comments and trackbacks, it turns out, is yet another area where WordPress rules. 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