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Stopping WordPress Spam Comments
Is comment spam taking up your time and bringing down your server?
Even if you don’t get enough spam to take down your server, I bet it’s still pretty annoying. Almost all WordPress bloggers run into this problem at some point, but most don’t know that there is an extremely simple WordPress plugin solution that will solve 99.9% of their automated spam comment headaches.
The plugin is called the Math Comment Spam Protection plugin and it adds an extra required field to your comment form that makes the commentor answer a simple math addition question before they are allowed to post a new comment. This stops the automated spam bots from thrashing your comments. The result is extremely effective and it will take your spam comment problems down to zero immediately.
I’ve been running the plugin for about a year now and the blog is clean. When I hear other bloggers running WordPress talk about spam comments, I immediately suggest the math comment spam protection plugin and it totally eliminates their problem.
Leave me a comment and let me know how it works for you.
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
Thanks for the tip. Some of the WP spam is certainly peculiar and definitely annoying.
Another awesome tool is Intense Debate. That is the comments manager that I am using on this blog. Intense Debate is an Automattic company, which is the same guys who developed WordPress. It has some built in setting for Akismet, a social comment spam filter and some other bits that help you set rules on when a comment is flagged.
Either method should get rid of your comment spam and let you focus on other, more important things.
How did you come across my blog? Please let me know if you remember.
The Math Comment Spam Protection plugin is very good for preventing comment spam on WordPress blogs, but I am now using IntenseDebate for comments because it offers a social networking options as well as spam protection.