WordPress Alternative To Akismet

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 2:12 am

contents for social sharing options ... whatever. The last thing you need after all this hard work is being bombarded with spam in the comments!

5 Proven Ways to get rid of your blog comment spam

WordPress Plugins 1.Let do the job!

WordPress offers excellent ant-spam plugins, the most popular of which are:

Akismet:

All you need is to register WordPress to get your folder occasionally to see how many spam attacks prevented Akismet

WP SpamFree:

If some managed to evade spam comments to Akismet, SpamFree WP plugin come to the rescue. This plugin is powerful enough to block pingbacks, keywords and trackbacks blacklisted by the sample on its blog. And the best part is that the spammer may not repost once they are deleted.

Captcha 2.Play Some Games

Due to the avalanche of spam online, many creative forms were designed to help ensure that the comment poster is really human! These include Captchas, reCAPTCHAs, math games, word games to name a few.

Moreover, comments about Post Older

If you are getting a lot of comment spam every week, consider closing comments on older posts. Simply go to your WordPress "Setting Index" and check the "Automatically close comments on older that the article" checkbox and include the required number of days in the edit field next to it.

4. Say "Spam elsewhere!" pesky IP addresses

Blacklist certain IP addresses is now possible thanks to the ban WP plugin. WP Ban allows you to either completely ban a certain IP address to post comments on your blog or you can notify you with a personalized message IP messages whenever a new comment spam. It only gets a little tricky with dynamic IP addresses were many users share the same host. Watch are the gurus of WordPress, which will search your wp-comments-post.php file. Spare them the opportunity to access this important file by changing the name to any name you prefer, making sure to include the new name when editing your theme of the swamp.

Let's face it: the comment spam is a problem terrible to have to face and deal effectively if you want to survive online. Comply with the above tips will make your mission to fight much spam easier. Good luck!

About the Author

Aaron Eden, founder and the brains behind Garious, has spent over 15 years in the quest for the holy grail of business innovation. " I love social media a lot that I'm sharing ideas that make it drop dead simple for everybody! "

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