10 opportunities to prevent comment spam on WordPress
Add Comment | November 29, 2008
If you have a WordPress blog run by your users can probably comment on your article. Restraint and filtering these comments are an extra work and time especially if they are too numerous. There are many ways to automate this moderation and filtering, the choice is yours.
10 opportunities to prevent comment spam on WordPress
All are not mutually exclusive, some are part of the overall configuration of WP:
- The most dramatic, not permitted. There are sites that do not directly comment, a discussion in which you can participate: Should blogs have comments?
- Spent time close to the publication of the article.
- Enable moderation, ie not appear until an administrator approves them. (Options> Discussion)
- Forcing the user to enter name and e-mail. (Options> Discussion)
- Only when the user has at least 1 published product. (Options> Discussion)
- Blacklists, add words or terms or number of links to expect that these comments to be approved or go directly to the spam bin. (Options> Discussion)
- The only plugin that brings WordPress default is to avoid spam, Askimet, which works perfectly even if one gets.
- The forms can make comments on an initial screening by validating some areas, usually the email.
- Use CAPTCHA to make sure that it is not a robot, plugin cforms for forms can integrate them. There are also specific plugins Simple CAPTCHA.
- Bad Behavior, a plugin that can combine with Askimet. Rather than look at the contents of the commentary about how acts, the software analyzes the spammer used.
Each blog is a particular case
In the particular case of this blog and some Askimet terms blacklists have been enough to avoid having to moderate.
The case of pqpq.es and justtellmewhy.com is different, none of these sites by their philosophy requires the user to fill in any field, yet the number of spam filtering that has not Askimet was virtually zero pqpq.es and abysmal in justtellmewhy.com andalusia I have added the plugin Bad Behavior.
Besides spams are bloggers who do not allow insults or politically incorrect comments. In this blog I have received many more than in pqpq.es or justtellmewhy.com where despite being sites for discussion and users have always kept the education to defend their positions.
In short remarks are an extra option and blogger, will depend on the content of the visits you have, the style with which you write and above all the time so we will have to take some of the possibilities I have.
Now more than ever, I invite you to add your opinion in a commentary.
