Two Easy Ways to Reduce Spam on Your Blog
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We get dozens of spam messages everyday. I have found there are two great ways to reduce spam messages on your blog.
Plugins
Askimet is the default plugin to help you fight spam. However, I personally use Bad Behavior.
Bad Behavior has blocked 914 access attempts in the last 7 days.
One of the features that I like about Bad Behavior is that all new commenters will have their comments set in moderation before they are approved. After they get approved once, you don’t have to approve them again (unless they change their name).
Close your Comments
I never really thought about this until recently. Ironically one of our most spammed blog posts is Why Is It That People Send Spam Still?
With several spam comments a day on that particular post, I decided to close the comments. That way the post wouldn’t get anymore spam.
It’s really easy to do. First go to edit on the post you want to close the comments to. Right under the categories section there is a discussion tab. Uncheck the “Allow Comments” and save. That’s it!
This is also a great thing to use when finish a contest. That way people can no longer enter. I did this on several of our contest pages.
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Han said:
I get SO much spam on my portfolio and theres nothing I can do about it – I cant use akismet it doesn’t integrate well with ZenPhoto least not the ones I’ve tried and I dont want to get rid of the comment form because I like giving people the option to comment. *le sigh* I hate spam!
August 12th, 2007 at 9:23 am -
Webd360 said:
I currently just use Akismet, but the Bad Behavior plugin looks good too; I might try it out later. Just one thing though, you can have it so new commentators go into comment moderation directly through WordPress, just go to the admin panel>options>discussion and under Before a comment appears check the box that says “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”
August 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am -
Michael said:
Lorelle from lorelle.wordpress.com always says that there are 3 plugins to use to get rid of spam, bad behavior, spam karma, and akismet. I would agree with those plugins.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:12 am -
Dima said:
Hi, I have made some modifications to wordpress to fight comment spam. You can look:
http://www.goplayme.com.ua/posts/how-to-fight-spam-in-wordpress-comments.htmlSeptember 20th, 2007 at 11:01 pm