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. :)

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  • http://smallmoskito.frens.net/ Mossie`Ol Chin

    the best way i’ve tried so far for fighting spams in wordpress is a simple 2 steps in edting your code….

    first: change the name of wp-comments-post.php to something else like lcf.php
    second: open wp-comments.php and change the form target file to lcf.php instead of the old wp-comments-post.php

    you might want to give this a try? once i did that, not a single spam got through as the spambots used by spammers scout for your wp-comments-post.php and send the required field thus resulting in a mass spamming… my two cents after reading the wordpress forum….

  • http://smallmoskito.frens.net/ Mossie`Ol Chin

    the best way i’ve tried so far for fighting spams in wordpress is a simple 2 steps in edting your code….

    first: change the name of wp-comments-post.php to something else like lcf.php
    second: open wp-comments.php and change the form target file to lcf.php instead of the old wp-comments-post.php

    you might want to give this a try? once i did that, not a single spam got through as the spambots used by spammers scout for your wp-comments-post.php and send the required field thus resulting in a mass spamming… my two cents after reading the wordpress forum….

  • http://www.liewcf.com/ LcF

    You are right. Changing the filename will prevent spam bot to find the comment form to post.

    However, changing WordPress system file’s name is not a good idea. It may affect other current and future scripts to work.

  • http://www.liewcf.com LcF

    You are right. Changing the filename will prevent spam bot to find the comment form to post.

    However, changing WordPress system file’s name is not a good idea. It may affect other current and future scripts to work.

  • http://smallmoskito.frens.net/ Mossie`Ol Chin

    dunnu, i got that tips from wordpress forum and as of now, i got no problem with spamming and installing new plugins oso no problem.. :D

  • http://smallmoskito.frens.net/ Mossie`Ol Chin

    dunnu, i got that tips from wordpress forum and as of now, i got no problem with spamming and installing new plugins oso no problem.. :D

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