How to block comment spam on your Wordpress blog
Wow, what an annoyance! I was minding my own business checking email, only to find that some really annoying person had been running some sort of automated comment spam system against my blog. After checking the IP address I realised that they were coming from 94.102.60.150 - 94.102.60.153 and were generating random messages and random names with false email addresses. Personally I don’t get the point of this type of spam, I mean I have deleted a few comments that simply read “great post, checkout my website at www.jeansforsale.com” and was posted on a post about real estate, but this spam doesn’t entice anyone to visit a website or have any usable information at all. It is just really
annoying.
So if you want to stop this comment spammer as well, here is an easy way to do this in Wordpress. Go to Settings and then click on Discussion. Near the bottom is a Blacklist box. Now you can either individually add the four ip addresses into this box, or if you are paranoid like me and think that he might start using more ip addresses, then you can block the whole range. I entered 94.102.60.* into the box which will block about 256 computers from entering comments on your site. I did this because if the spammer bought 12 ip addresses instead of just four, they will probably be in the same range.
What I also did was tick the box that says users must have at least one approved comment. This doesn’t stop the comment from being posted, however it stops the comment from appearing on your site until you approve it. I will leave this one for about a month or so as it generates lots of work for you if you get lots of comments from new visitors. I turned this on though so if the guy has a different range of ip addresses he starts to try, his software will see that the comments are not appearing and hopefully move onto the next blog.
I will also be adding a plugin which asks the commentor to fill in a number which cannot be read by an automated bot. I will let you know which plugin I use when I have evaluated a few.
I am JMR and this is My Little Corner on JMRPub.com
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Leaving a decent remark in a blog is not really hard but it is sad that some people exert too much effort in putting useless comments in our blogs. Sure, they want to earn traffic or whatsoever for their sites but I hope they will do it in nice, beneficial way.
Привет, я думала что это совсем не так происходит:)
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