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WordPress Blogs: How to stop spam

The fact is, if you have a WordPress blog with open comments, then you will get spam submissions.

Almost 90% of comments on blogs are spam. Sad but true.

People often add comments to blogs just to get back links and visitors their own blogs. They may not have any interest at all in place. Some of these commentators who try to camouflage this commentary, while others blatantly far without a care in the world.

Of course there are readers who sincerely want to make valid comments on their blogs. Want to add your contributions or clarify a point or two. They want to add value to your blog.

The problem is how to eliminate the quality of commentators ... well ... less quality. Thus, You will be glad to discover that there are actually ways to achieve this without pulling your hair out or really close the comments on his blog altogether.

WordPress has some tools integrated to help you. That will not solve the problem completely, but they will manage.

To configure these tools, log into your WordPress blog. Go to Settings, then to the Roundtable, moderation.

Close to comment further after the Settings> Discussion> Other adjustments comment

Check the checkbox "automatically close comments on articles over 60 days."

Many spammers and bots will focus on these old messages. By blocking them, to discourage spammers and save the time of excavation, but all of your previous post.

Limit allowed in the comments links control the number of links allowed in comments. Suggest that this adjustment to a link to reduce spam.

Settings> Round Table> Comment Moderation

Spam Words

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, address, email address, or IP, will be held in the moderation queue. A word or IP per line. To coincide with the interior of words, so "press" will match "WordPress".

Settings> Discussion> Comment Moderation

Comment Blacklist

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, address, email address, or IP, which will flagged as spam. A word or IP per line. To coincide with the interior of words, so "press" will match "WordPress".

Do you want to be careful not to put in simple words here too.

Settings> Discussion> Comment from the blacklist

You may want to moderate all comments on the safe side. If so, then visitors may wonder why your comments have not shown and try again. You have to decide how all this works for you by trial and error.

You can pre-approval of those ancient commentators to reduce confusion and give greater control.

Using CAPTCHA can prevent spam, but not completely. Note that some commentators feel uncomfortable valid and can be avoided.

There are plugins that use mathematics to put away the spammers, but these too are not without problems. You have to decide whether you want to go this way or not.

Here are some plugins that can help control spam on WordPress blogs:

Akismet

This is the most popular supplement to combat spam. It is free for everyone except those making more than $ 500 per month with his blog. In that case, the cost is $ 5 per month.

It works by comparing the observations submitted to your blog to all other IP addresses of spam, emails, text and links and you can usually recognize spam.

You will need a the application key to run this plugin. Visit WordPress.com to get the key. Register if you do not already have an account.

Look in the Akismet panel to find false / negative comments being flagged as spam legitimate

Why not use Akismet?

He repeatly regular users could block Algorithy became necessary to change

You have to see how it works for you then decide for yourself.

The AVH first defense against spam

This plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before the content is served by identifying them in the Honey Pot Project, a local black list or the IP cache local. Visitors trying to send a comment stopforumspam.com are checked. Stop Forum Spam is not used to check the content before it is served because the number of applications, which overloads infrastructure.

By blocking spam Reloaded Mathematics

This WordPress plugin protects your access 3.x, comments, and the new user / New registration process from spambots blog with a simple math question. This plugin adds an extra layer of protection against spam in the comments and the creation robot spam blogs. Although nothing is 100% foolproof, the concept has been demonstrated many times in various ways in the past. By blocking spam Reloaded combines Mathematics WPMU features spam blocking for mathematics and the original block spam math in a plug-in that supports the 3.x and BuddyPress WordPress 1.2.7 platforms.

User Spam Remover

User Spam Remover is a plugin for WordPress that automatically removes spam from the user records and an old, never used the accounts user. It also blocks e-mail notice sent to the administrator normally WordPress when a new user registers (annoying when the record is spam!) and records it in place.

The plugin adds a panel configuration for all these options can be enabled or disabled, and connected and fully supports all user accounts deleted, so you can restore if necessary.

Features:

Automatically deletes user registration spam and other orphaned accounts, never used.

Very simple, enable and go! It interferes with the normal user log in any way. Therefore, does not add captchas or activation or whatever - you are free to use it with a plugin that does, if desired.

Blocks-mail notification WordPress e normally sent to the administrator each time a new user registers (instead records this event.)

Fully configurable, with grace period for new accounts and the white list of optional user name.

Fully records all actions and backup of all accounts user is removed so that you can restore without any problems if you ever need.

For more information and installation instructions, please go to: http://lyncd.com/user-spam-remover/

Now you have the knowledge and tools to combat spam. By allowing visitors to interact with your blog to build a community. Blog This strengthens its appeal and success.

You have the power to attract people to your blog and succeed in their efforts. This blog without fear.

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