Wordpress Comment Spam, Anyone?

Tuesday, March 25. 2008

Wordpress Comment Spam, Anyone?

For those of you wondering where I’ve been, it’s Malaysia and Indonesia for the past two months (stories and photos). Not that anyone wants to hear about that, though!

Has anybody noticed a remarkable spike in wordpress comment spam in the last week? I’ve had to defer all comments for moderation due to the massive amounts of crap that’s coming through. More importantly, does anybody have any suggestion of a way to get around it?

Update: Just noticed that all my permanent pages and comment captcha is missing. This disturbs me greatly.

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 07:57 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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#1 SlimG on 2008-03-25 12:24 (Reply)

bcSpamBlock and Bad Behaviour are all you'll ever need. I've been using those and I haven't had to use Akismet or Captchas

#2 db0 (Homepage) on 2008-03-26 04:48 (Reply)

You're right,

My wordpress blog is receiving about 100 PPC (Pills Porn Casino) comments with links etc every day. It's been building for the last month or so & it's driving me completely mad.

Cheers

CT

#3 Chris (Homepage) on 2008-04-01 16:22 (Reply)

Do it with javascript

document.write("

#4 Cifro on 2008-04-02 12:39 (Reply)

I prefer Akismet. It seems to block all the comment spam on my blog.

#5 Eddie (Homepage) on 2008-04-15 10:57 (Reply)

The single and only plugin I use is WP-Hashcash, along with a few blacklisted words. Tried Akismet, BotChek and Bad Behavior, none of them worked so nice as this simplistic combination.

#6 netmask (Homepage) on 2008-04-15 21:57 (Reply)

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