I am using wordpress version 2.0.3 Pls suggest me which pluggin i should use to avoid spamming comments. I am getting daily aroud 500 comments on my particular blog and deleting those comments is so boring. Any help regarding this is highly appreciated
A post I recently found. Also simply renaming your "comment processing page" will block almost all of them, as it's all automated with a "third party software" generally... Bye
yup this plugging is there but when i activate it ask me for some ttf file which is not on my server.
I think you are referring to API key which you can get from wordpress.org when you reg there. Or else try the fully automated Spamkarma2 Amit
.TTF are font files. If this plugin uses some sort of image verification, or something similar, then it probably is looking for fonts to use in image creation... Haven't used this plugin so can't tell which specific file/font you would require. Bye
Jeet You are right it asked me .TTF font file and it tried located on my server but couldn't find that.
I am using Spam Karma 2, it works perfectly, never caught positive comments and none of spams get through.
I echo the sentiments of Eches83. SK2 is fantastic. It sends you a daily digest of everything it's caught so that you can simply and easily restore anything that it's accidentally chewed up. Very handy.
Hi, Depending upon the visibilty of your blog, only one anti-spam may be enough or you may need more. There is no one way to do it. The Bad Behavior plugin is great at filtering out most of the spam attacks. I get about 150 a day. Next up comes Akismet, which gets all of the known spammers that get through BB. Finally, there is Spam Karma, which does an excellent job of catching potentially new spammers. The problem with this approach, is that Bad Behavior, in particular, may block legitimate viewers, so it is a decision you have to make. There are lots of discussion on this in wordpress.org, if you need some opinions. Rich
Amit Spamkarma2 is crap it deleted my genuine comments and sent spammy ones for moderation . Infact you also stop using it. when i get a comment then i also recieve an email of that comment. I checked those comments in my mail box and were genuine but Spamkarma2 deleted them I think i would need Image verification when someone comment. Becoz in my blog i get lot of genuine comments too.
5) Deny Access to No Referrer Requests When humans comment on your blog they have read the post and leave a comment. This of course leaves the referal from your blog. One easy way to block spammers is to check for the referal. Simply paste the lines below into your .htaccess file in the root of your webserver. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L] What you need to edit: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* - If you are not running a wordpress blog then you will want to change that to the file that gets the post for comments. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR] - obviously you want this to be your domain. RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L] - this is where you are redirecting them too. This probably does not matter since the automated spambots will not follow redirects. Done! 4) Kill tor anonymous proxies Thats cool people want to surf anonymously and all that but being that about 75% of my comments come from tor proxies its much easier just to block them. simply go here and copy this to your .htaccess to block all the tor servers 3) Stop Comments On Older Posts Spammers target older posts for 2 reasons. A) they show up in search engines and thus they know: * search engines value the page pr wise * it could be relavent to the keyword they are trying to spam B) You wont see it. - since the post is old its unlikely that you would ever notice thus greater chance of sneaking it by you. You have a few options to fix this- You can manually disallow comments for posts after x amount of days (ick) If you have wordpress you can download this plugin which will automatically close off comments and trackbacks after 21 days. If you have some h4×0r skills you can setup a cron job (thats a automated task to us ninjas) that will edit your database directly checking for past posts and setting the comments and 2) Blacklist Repeat Offenders: When some spammers do get in you can blacklist there ips so they wont ever be able to again… this process does suck a bit but its a option. Again edit your .htaccess file: order allow,deny deny from 192.168.1.1 deny from 192.168.1.* allow from all Remember * represent wildcards 1) Rename your comment file The default for wordpress is wp-comments-post.php by simply renaming this file to say… wpc.php then changing your theme to reflect the different location for the comment file you will ward off a TON of spammers. This will kill 100% of the automated spam bots. And I'd like to suggest Akismet and Spamkarma 2 upon these 5 tips.
This is perfectly feasible, since Spam Karma is looking for some key words, phrases, characteristics, which for many blogs would be considered bad but for other blogs are what would be expected. SK assigns "scores", which can be weakened in the options panel, if the administrator would like to be more lax. For example, many of the posts on WickedFire would probably be tagged as spam but perfectly acceptable on WickedFire. A lot of this is a matter of taste and expectations. But, SK, shouldn't have deleted them. It should have just tagged it for moderation. In anycase, there is an additional plugin available to coordinate SK with Akismet, if anyone decided to use both. Rich
Just a question, but have you enabled the "akismet" plug-in to snatch any spam coming towards your blog.
Karma2 would do some help, most spam bots will be eaten, Akismet 2.0 would stop most pingback spam. AuthImage would stop all spam bots. I have not got any spam after installing it.