Tales of an Internet Entrepreneur

Stopping the Wordpress spammers

Posted by Bjorn Solstad at 8 April, 2008, 12:07 am

I have been looking for a way to stop the spam comments that sneak into the Wordpress blogs I run. I have tried several different ones, but they all have been “not quite what I was looking for”.

It was a relief to read Jeremy’s post where he point’s out a nifty little plugin that stops the perstering of my posts.

The plugin does one simple thing: It closes the posts for comments after 14 days (by default). That should do it I think.

Thanks Jeremy for a great tip :) and thanks to Matt for creating it.

Category : Wordpress

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Christian April 10, 2008

I recently set up another way of preventing spam on my own site, http://www.cjohansen.no. When it comes to beating automated spambots, nothing beats custom protection since the bots are unlikely to be prepared for it.

admin April 10, 2008

I read what you did on your blog Christian.

I think I have seen something similar for WP to the math-challenge. Will have a look.

Thanks for the tip though :)

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