WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP Addresses

April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming? I think it is.

February 1st, 2005 Yesterday I found some (around 20) irrelevant medical ads in my spam-trap :) Today I got a comment: "This site has --expletive deleted-- nasty hidden script (which prevents me from spamming)" - wrote some exasperated kiddie-comment-spammer in his comments. You bet! It appears that the spammers have resorted to trackback spamming to get around captcha.

November 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.

January 30th, 2008 Type the following as a WordPress comment and see the fun: <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">This is www.yahoo.com link</a> This should ideally cause the whole phrase (This is www.yahoo.com link) to be hyperlinked and pointing to google.com. Unfortunately WordPress sees it as two links and a plain word: "This is" is hyperlinked to www.google.com "www.yahoo.com" is hyperlinked to www.yahoo.com "link" is not hyperlinked at all Did you read about the other hyperlinking defect?

August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.

December 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.

June 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...

May 15th, 2006 We are doing extensive work with WordPress, developing plugins, themes and also modifying the code base where necessary. In the process I found it necessary to create a online cross-reference of WordPress source along with capability to annotate / comment (AJAX based) as necessary.

August 20th, 2007 Nowadays my WordPress comments table is frequently getting corrupted and I have to repair it. The MySQL table repair command does the trick.

December 4th, 2008 Wordpress Notifier is a freeware application that alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on your Wordpress blog. I have seen successful admins from internationally popular blogs and believe me its some time too hectic to refresh the page every minute so that you don't miss out on an imporntant comment.

November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed: < !– We leave content intact.

May 5th, 2006 Many of my posts have multiple pages. WordPress today doesn't provide a visible way to add multiple pages to your (single) article / post.

November 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.

January 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.

December 4th, 2004 1 comment approved 69 comments deleted Its kind of getting painful deleting "texas-holdem", "debt-consolidation" emails by hand. What wordpress needs is a bulk moderation folder where such emails can be automatically dumped and if un-moderated deleted after say 30 days.