Use Antispam Bee. It is free, doesn’t phone home, and it works surprisingly well as long as you dont change the comment form too much (you have to test it). Just make sure you disable the mail notification for spam comments. 🙂
Akismet – libraries: First I want to mention that there are many Akismet libraries out there: http://akismet.com/development/ and here are the API documents: http://akismet.com/development/api/ Akismet – WordPress plugin: But as I understand it, you want to use the Akismet WordPress plugin as your library. The following code snippet is a simple proof of concept, based … Read more
I won’t repeat any of the good advice in Squish’s answer. You should also read this article on WordPress security. I’m just going to cover the specifics of what I learned from my episode. My attack is a kind of black hat SEO known as “hideMeYa”: http://siteolytics.com/black-hat-seo-technique-demystified/ Basically, the attacker slips a bunch of hidden … Read more
You actually want to keep these comments marked as spam–not trashed. Akismet checks against your spam list while deciding what to do with a new comment. So having a large database of spam comments actually helps Akismet work. I get what your issue is, but what you’re essentially asking for is a spam filter for … Read more
I haven’t done this personally, but it would be pretty easy. If you are building your comment form manually, just before the end of the </form> put: <?php wp_nonce_field( ‘comment_nonce’ ) ?> Then, just hook into the pre_comment_on_post action which fires when you submit a comment: add_action( ‘pre_comment_on_post’, ‘my_verify_comment_nonce’ ); function my_verify_comment_nonce() { check_admin_referer( ‘comment_nonce’ … Read more
Create a file in wp-content/plugins/ with this code: <?php /* Plugin Name: Get Rid of Comment Websites */ function my_custom_comment_fields( $fields ){ if(isset($fields[‘url’])) unset($fields[‘url’]); return $fields; } add_filter( ‘comment_form_default_fields’, ‘my_custom_comment_fields’ ); Normally, I’d say put it into your theme’s functions.php file, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that for a theme that could update like Twenty … Read more
For my blog, I too run Akismet to catch any spam that is posted to my blog, but I also prevent spam from being posted in the first place using a few plugins: Cookies For Comments requires that people leaving comments have cookies and CSS stylesheets enabled. A stylesheet is added to your site that … Read more
On the Akismet side, a few things to note. First, in wp-admin under ‘Plugins -> Akismet Configuration’ is everything green? You mentioned that you confirmed the API key is correct. Did you check the ‘Server Connectivity’ section? All of the IP addresses listed should be green. If not then you server isn’t able to make … Read more
I have used a WAMP server to host my website publicly, using Godaddy for my domain and open ports so it’s public. Ever since I installed WordPress, it keeps trying to send messagess to some email address every time I do anything, and now it’s picked up Google spam filters so I recieve the following … Read more