WordPress Anti Comment Spam
Filed in: Site News, WordPress — January 3rd, 2005
In less than 12 hours I installed WordPress 1.2.2, the site has been hit by comment spam bots heavily and left almost 1000 comment spams! At first I delete them from WordPress Admin panel, but it is too slow! So, I launch my site’s phpMyAdmin to delete those spams, faster but still troublesome…
Before upgrade, I seldom get spam comment. Maybe I have installed spam blocker previously which I have forgotten. :p
I do not want to do the stupid task DAILY again. I found some anti spam plugins for WordPress…
By following WordPress Tackling Comment Spam page, I installed WPBlackList and Spambot Stopper.
WPBlackList is similar to Movable Type BlackList, it filters comments that match internal blacklist, even support realtime blacklist(RBL)!
Spambot Stopper is a simple but effective in stopping spam flood. It embebed a hidden field in the comment form that is then checked for on posting.
Thought:
Comment spam is headache for almost every blogger. WordPress will apply better comment moderation in the next version(1.5). Currently, there are various anti comment spam plugins available for WordPress. They should be effective enough to filter comment spam in your blog. Let’s see how effective of the two I have installed then. 
