Comments on: How to stop blog comment spam in WordPress

By: Mohan Sinha

Mohan Sinha — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:26:12 +0000

How do I read the spam comments. I know some comments to my blog have gone into spam when they shouldn’t have. How can I unblock these?

By: @donpower

@donpower — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:00:46 +0000

Hey! Funny I just saw this post referenced in your newsletter (Jan. 20/2010).

Just so happens it’s the same day I wrote a post about a really funny spam comment I got on my blog and how Askimet has come to the rescue zapping it as spam before it became a nuissance. I won’t create a hotlink to it (comment spam, perhaps) but if anyone would like to read it the post title is

“Askimet, I am very love you free” .

Cheers!

Don Power

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:07:01 +0000

Great!! this information really important thanks for the precious tips to preventing spam…doing gr8 impressed countinue this efforts thanx

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:33:06 +0000

I’ve been using Akismet ever since I first started my blog and have only just started using WP-SpamFree so it will be interesting to see if it reduces the spam down a bit, having a DoFollow blog always seems to entice those pesky spammers in, but it’s mainly wasting their time not ours

By: Simon | Teenius

Simon | Teenius — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:25:02 +0000

Cool article! Personally, my spam count is about twice the “proper” comment count.. it’s ridiculous! So this article was really helpful, nice one.

Just to add a quick note… if you do add Askimet, make sure that you go through it every now and again, as sometime it catches comments which aren’t actually spam.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:28:49 +0000

Thanks for great tips to prevent spam. To stop spamming i have used AntiSpam Bee

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:01:42 +0000

Yeah, some are very sophisticated, I especially don’t like those that take a real comment and just add some spam link into it.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:59:54 +0000

Sounds like an interesting plugin! Yeah, that is what I do, Akismet plus me reading and moderating the comments manually.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:59:08 +0000

Akismet is the saviour. I use it on my blog as well, and as you say once or twice a spam goes through but for the most part it works perfect.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:50:37 +0000

I’ve spent so many year as an IT person dealing with spam as it relates to email form. With my blog I just installed Akismet way back when, and never really gave much thought to it.
After reading this post I realize how sophisticated spam in blogging (and other forms) can be. Very interesting.