Recipe for a comment spam free site for WordPress UsersDecember 24th, 2004 My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all:
Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack
Go to Options Tab.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.
Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Plugin) Released for Internal TestingNovember 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.
The Death of Akismet (WordPress Spam Prevention Plugin)?May 28th, 2006 Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams.
WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Free Weblog Hosting Signup at WordPress.ComNovember 21st, 2005 WordPress.com has finally opened for free signup by everyone. You no longer have to be a privileged invitee or a Flock user or use my hack to get an invotation.
Meta-Review of WordPress Matt's Automattic(sic) Spam StopperOctober 31st, 2005 Matt, author of WordPress blogging software, has released an anti-spam plugin for WordPress - Automattic Spam Stopper (now renamed as AKismet)
Bad Behavior, a competing rather effective comment spam prevention plugin, author nicknamed IOError posted a review which points out some obvious downsides of such centralized spam filtering mechanisms like:
1. Privacy concern - all your comments are send to Matt's server for human inspection
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Apology to "Simple Thoughts" blog commenters in last 20 days or soMarch 17th, 2005 What happened
After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded.
Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No SirSeptember 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.
Comment Guard Pro Beta 0.3 ReleasedFebruary 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.
All comments get nuked by Blackhole option on blocking open proxy lists in WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn)March 17th, 2005 It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles.
Akismet, WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin, is GoodApril 7th, 2006 Akismet is WordPress hosted spam filter from Matt M. I have been using it for about a week now.
WordPress Creator Matt's WordPress Blog DownApril 26th, 2009 A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress.
Free WordPress Plugin To Remove Generator Meta Tag / Version Information From WordPress BlogsJune 30th, 2008 WordPress, in recent versions, have forces the display of WordPress as the generator in meta tags along with the version information in the header of your WordPress blogs -. Unlike previous versions there is not easy way to remove it.
1/2 Million+ Spam Comments Blocked By Comment Guard Pro; Zero False PositiveSeptember 28th, 2007 508903 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 253 days 21 hours 54 minutes. 99.503% of the comments received during this time were spam.
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May 5th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
thanks for the great tip. for some reason I cannot download the hashcash plugin files from that site, it down let me for some reason?
tom
May 5th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
You can use this link (for Hashcash) which will directly download the php file to your computer - http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/wp-hashcash/trunk/wp-hashcash.php?rev=440&format=raw
You will also need to download the js file and place it in the plugins directory - http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/wp-hashcash/trunk/md5.js?rev=88&format=raw
The documentation is at http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/wp-hashcash/trunk/wp-hashcash-readme.doc?rev=415&format=raw
May 16th, 2005 at 2:57 am
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July 4th, 2005 at 8:45 am
I’ve used WP-HashCash since November 2004 when it was called The Spam Stopgap Extreme. Not one comment spam attempt has gotten past it since I installed it. However, I have placed the plugin on several clients blogs that did cause a user problem. While no spam got through, some aol users could not post comments. For me it’s a non-issue but for one of my clients it was a big issue since a large majority of his users are on aol.
I did find an alternative - Comment Spam Plugin - that works just as well and allows aol users to comment. I still use HashCash and have no intention of changing but for those who may have had a problem with users not being able to post comments, there is a good alternative.
I’ve never tried the Referrer Bouncer Plugin but I don’t get referral spam anymore, nor do any of my clients. I used a simple piece of php code that bounced the referral spam back to the spammers main site. In essence, the referral spammer spammed him/herself! It took a lot of time and effort but it did take care of the problem. I would have loved to have had the plugin but no one thought referral spam was a big enough issue to write a plugin at that time and I do not have the skill to write php code.
I love WP because the community is so willing to share and very active in combating the spam problems on the net today. Thanks for sharing!
July 5th, 2005 at 7:42 am
@glo
> I used a simple piece of php code that bounced the referral spam back to the spammers main site. In essence, the referral spammer spammed him/herself! It took a lot of time and effort but it did take care of the problem.
Referrer Bouncer does the same. The difference is that you don’t have to spend any time or effort to setup or use. It comes pre-configured. In case you want to add your own entries, you can easily do so too.
Thanks for the informative post. I was not aware that Hashcash has issues with AOL users. Have you tried with the latest versions?
July 5th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
The last version I used was 1.7. I don’t know why some aol users had a problem, I just know that when I changed it, the aol users were then able to post comments without a problem. Right now I’m using Bad Behavior on one of my clients blog along with the Comment Spam Plugin. It’s a new blog, well, new to WP, she had one on TypePad for about 8 months before deciding to get her own domain and hiring me to host and design the WP blog. No spam of any kind so far and I expect it to stay that way.
My personal blog is still using WP 1.2. I really need to upgrade it but the design is complicated and I haven’t quite figured out how to incorporate it into a WP theme, though I am getting better at creating designs that are a theme and understanding more about how it works. When I do upgrade I will use the Referrer Bouncer Plugin.
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:21 am
[...] Next I had to go in the code to find out the exact location of the error in wp-comments.php. However before I did that I wanted to remember which plugins hooked into wp-comments. The only one was wp-hashcash, an excellent comment spam prevention plugin. So before going further I disabled the plugin. [...]
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