Simple Way How I Prevent Blog Comment Spamming

Hi guys,

Just thought of sharing what I did to stop spam messages in my blog comment. This method is only applicable for self hosted blog system. I will use wordpress blog as a guide but technically it works for others too.

2 easy steps:

1) Got to the blog theme editor. Find pages where your comment form resides. In wordpress normally it's in the file comments.php. Find the html tag for '<form ...'.

Example:

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/[B]wp-comments-post.php[/B]" method="post" id="commentform">

Code (markup):

Change the comment engine that is mentioned in the above <form> tag to anything that you like; ie. 'wp-comments-post.php' to 'wp-comments-postx.php'. Save comments.php & go to next step.

2) Use FTP software and log in to your server. Locate the file 'wp-comments-post.php' and rename it to 'wp-comments-postx.php'.


That's all..

Most people will install a better version of comment system plug-ins that have better security measure such as captcha. But normally this method won't help much especially if you already started getting spam messages. This is because your core comment system is still there. Most spammer does not go through your new system interface to send in their messages instead they use the default system where in most cases is still active regardless whether you use a better system or not.


Hope that helps..

Cheers,

 

Great, will do it soon. Technically why is this method better than others.. Just curious since I was just thinking to install new solution with CAPTCHA function..

 

Well, from my finding I noticed that most spaming tool will not visit / read your comment page, instead it send those messages by directly calling the comment script instead. Since they do it in masses, so any blog that returns error while submitting will be left out.

Anyway that was based on my experience. Of course the best would be having both CAPTCHA and this method..

Cheers,

 

thanks for this.
It works fine.

 

Thanks for this ! i got spam too often, this really helps

 

Thanks mate. It works great You deserve a +ve rep..