I dunno if there’s already a post on this - if I missed it in searches, my bad!
ANYWAY, does anyone have any good tips or filtering out spam on Wordpress blogs? I get an absolute SHIT-TON of spam on my blog, and it’s not like the comments appear on the blog, but it’s a bummer to have to scan over hundreds of spam posts at a time to make sure they should be deleted.
I have loads of words in my comment filters (every prescription drug that is usually mentioned, porno words, casino words, shit that wouldn’t come up in conversation, etc), but it doesn’t seem to help much.
9 Comments
Simply Complicated said 2 months ago
Akismet should do it...
seibei said 2 months ago
ohhh, rad shit, thanks dude.
forloveofOCTOBER said 2 months ago
yes! i was in need of this too.
Simply Complicated said 2 months ago
akismet is built in haha..did you guys never activate it
forloveofOCTOBER said 2 months ago
i have an old version of word press.
it works for me, and i dont feel like upgrading.
akismet isnt on it.
forloveofOCTOBER said 2 months ago
that or im a dumbass and just found akismet built in..
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
you need it register it, but it works wonders.
hideyourarms said 2 months ago
I know what you’re talking about when it comes to upgrading (I used to always put it off), but you probably should upgrade since there are security holes in the older versions which people have learned to exploit, meaning that your whole blog could be at risk to spam attacks and other nasty stuff.
Akismet is pretty awesome, though I’ve found that it sometimes incorrectly calls 'real' comments spam when they have a lot of URLs in them.
seibei said 2 months ago
me = lesson learned for never having investigated wordpress plugins. so far, akismet is pretty dope - thanks!