Wordpress Comment Spam, Anyone?
March 25, 2008 – 9:57 pmFor 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 Responses to “Wordpress Comment Spam, Anyone?”
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.
By apokryphos on Mar 25, 2008
Hi,
for me the Akismet spam filter did a great job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akismet
cheers
By icwiener on Mar 25, 2008
give a try to hiddy: http://hiddy.etechs.it/
By xdmx on Mar 25, 2008
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!
By Mike Arthur on Mar 25, 2008
Do you know http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet ? It works fine for me.
By Oliver Nautsch on Mar 25, 2008
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
By Paul Dann on Mar 26, 2008