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 M¢25  Funded By Mahalo ? |  June 16, 2009 04:21 PM

Anybody know a good way to keep spam off comments on a WordPress blog?

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June 17, 2009 05:39 AM
Akismet seems to be the leader in stopping comment spam.
http://akismet.com/

but if you want to REALLY stop it, ALSO block the spammer's IP address.

No, its actually easier than it sounds..

there are a few plugins, but I reco the one called
WP-Ban
can be found here:
http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/
and download it here:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-ban.1.50.zip
Source(s):
Eats spam for breakfast.



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June 16, 2009 05:23 PM | view on twitter
Here is the official page from Wordpress on how to combat what's called comment spam:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam


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