Fighting comment spam in wordpress

Are you annoying about wordpress comment spammer who are greedy about spamming link. In this post, we will guide you 3 steps to completely get rid of comment spammer.

Step1: Delete all previous comment
Just login to cloudPanel and go ahead to phpMyAdmin. Navigate to your database and then wp_comments table. We are sure you will shocking about 100,000+ comment stored in your database. Click empty button at once and all comment will be deleted!

Step2: Setting comment option to “closed” for existing post
Stay in phpMyAdmin from step1 but navigate to wp_posts table and run this SQL query

Step3: Disable user to comment for prevent further spamming
In this step, login to your wordpress admin page and navigate to Settings > Discussion. You will see a lot of option there. Follow the setting below to be sure about comment are closed in the future.



Now, comment spammer will be dead and you are safe from further spammer. Do not waste bandwidth/disk space resources for spammer!

 

Turn on akismet.
Make a sandwich.
Done.
Nigel

 

I always use to. However, still have spam ;(

 

It must be your API key. You need a correct working API key to make akismet work

 

I have check in my blog an see that akismet api key seems doesn't work. Thank you for pointing me.

 

You can always register for a new API key. Then save that key to a safe location and you can use it in any of your blogs. I own a blog network and I use a single API key for all of them. Just make sure you turn it ON to filter spam or you can use other plugins to fight off spam.

Just two cents.

 

That's one way to do it. However, I prefer to just use plug-ins that prevent spam. Akismet does the job for most things, and there are other plugins out there that block comment spam. They have a database of blacklisted IP's and do a really good job of picking it up and blocking it. Its all automated and you don't have to do anything.

 

Better use this plugin : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-bot-question/

 

Akismet is the best plugin to protect your blog from spam comments which is trusted by millions of publishers.

 

It is more or less as simple as this. If you're still wasting your time fighting comment spam, you're doing it wrong.

 

We do the following:

Have askimet set up on our blogs
Have a personal plan with incaptula

We have found that the two together stop any problems and we now probably only get about 5 spam blog comments a month (if that)

 

I use Akismet and this works really fine and I approve Valuable Comments manually.

 

I am using akimet plugin which will automatically detect the spam comments and sent them to spam folder. Great Plugin.

 

Akismet is good, but some times spam my real comments