Wordpress Comment Spam, Anyone?

March 25, 2008 in tech by Seb

For those of you wondering where I’ve been, it’s Malaysia and Indonesia for the past two months (stories and photos). Not that anyone wants to hear about that, though!

Has anybody noticed a remarkable spike in wordpress comment spam in the last week? I’ve had to defer all comments for moderation due to the massive amounts of crap that’s coming through. More importantly, does anybody have any suggestion of a way to get around it?

Update: Just noticed that all my permanent pages and comment captcha is missing. This disturbs me greatly.

6 Comments

  1. apokryphos
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 10:35 pm | Permalink

    I use “Math Comment Spam” ( http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/ ) which has worked perfectly for me. We also use it on the openSUSE news site.

  2. icwiener
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    for me the Akismet spam filter did a great job.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akismet

    cheers

  3. xdmx
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

    give a try to hiddy: http://hiddy.etechs.it/

  4. Mike Arthur
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

    Yeh, as of this weekend I’ve been getting probably 10x the Wordpress comment spam I was getting before. I think I may need to add a captcha even although I hate them!

  5. Oliver Nautsch
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 11:44 pm | Permalink

    Do you know http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet ? It works fine for me.

  6. Paul Dann
    Posted March 26, 2008 at 8:59 pm | Permalink

    I have a Drupal site, and I got a huge surge of Comment spam over the last few days. I installed reCAPTCHA and all seems OK now :)