One surprisingly useful solution to foil most spam-bots is to use a honeypot. Put an extra entry field into your comment forms, and then hide it with css. Normal users won’t fill it in because they won’t ever even see it. Based on that, you can safely assume that anytime an entry is made with … Read more
Some are attempting to leave their links behind, they believe the quantity not quality approach will actual help increase SEO rankings. The other reason would be affiliate marketing garbage links trying to make a penny.
I am a HUGE fan of the Bad Behavior plugin: Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can … Read more
I have been using Recaptcha which has the added benefit of helping to translate literature. (!)The plugin linked above will add Re-Captcha to your comments or registration form or both. It also has features like themes for the captcha forms. Definitely worth looking into.
In Settings > Discussion > Comment Blacklist. You can blacklist comments based on content, name, url, e-mail, or IP. To mark the comments as spam, what I would do, is to do a search for his IP and then there is a checkbox that will select all, then just mark as spam. Trick is, it … Read more
Yes. There are a variety of ways to do this, primarily, we’ll need to tackle the wp_delete_user() function. Your first task, and the tricky one, is to identity which accounts are spam, and which are real. This can be quite an adventure if your site gains new users regularly. With the following example, we target … Read more
The problem is the globals global $akismet_api_host, $akismet_api_port; are not available everywhere. I suggest calling your function in the “init” hook… add_action(‘init’, ‘myAkismetInit’); function myAkismetInit() { var_dump ( bm_checkSpam(”) ); } Check out the Akismet API documentation. The other option is to use one of these wrapper classes: https://github.com/tijsverkoyen/Akismet use \TijsVerkoyen\Akismet\Akismet; // create instance $akismet … Read more
This is done filtering the *_row_actions. For the Comments screen (/wp-admin/edit-comments.php) this is the hook: add_filter( ‘comment_row_actions’, ‘comments_row_wpse_92313’, 15, 2 ); function comments_row_wpse_92313( $actions, $comment ) { if( !current_user_can( ‘delete_plugins’ ) ) unset( $actions[‘quickedit’], $actions[‘edit’], $actions[‘spam’] ); return $actions; } I cannot see a History option, maybe it’s included by some plugin (?). It’s a … Read more
Haha, I actually figured out a way to do this. As a plugin, this should work. class JPB_CommentCounter { var $count = 0; function __construct(){ add_filter( ‘pre_comment_content’, array( $this, ‘content’ ), 100 ); add_filter( ‘comment_max_links_url’, array( $this, ‘counter’ ) ); } function JPB_CommentCounter(){ $this->__construct(); } function counter( $num, $url ){ if($this->count < 1) return $num; … Read more
Disclaimer: I wrote parts of the Akismet WordPress plugin, though not the parts in question here. Is Akismet failing to connect to the Akismet service, notifying me, and retrying later? Yes, this is exactly what happens. If Akismet doesn’t get a valid response from the servers, it reschedules the check for 20 minutes in the … Read more