Contact Form 7 has support for Akismet, and reCaptcha; check the docs. Hidden fields are not useful, IMHO; they are still visible in the page source to a ‘scraper’. (Neither are ‘questions’ and some other techniques.) The only useful thing that I have found is to add some Javascript to the form that senses human … Read more
You should not add http:// or wwww. to your Comment Moderation or Blacklist boxes. This will send all comments to a pending status, or WP removes them. If you want stuff to be blacklisted that contains a certain url, add a fully qualified domain name.
you should deactivate the plugin(s) first, then delete. i just upgraded to wordpress version 3.8 and everything is okay.
To use the plugin in the question you linked to: Copy the code into notepad or an equivalent program Save the file using the extension .php (make sure your operating system has file endings turned on so it doesn’t save as filename.php.txt Put the file into a compressed (or zipped) folder. How you do this … Read more
Personally I highly recommend to not use IP blocks at .htaccess level. There are simply too many false positives possibilities for that to work reliably. I had encountered WP blogs (luckily wave of those seem to have faded) that just shut me out, accusing my IP of belonging to evil spamer… Static IP that belonged … Read more
If your really worried I would probably create custom write panels or custom meta boxes tied into custom post types. That way you can make the custom post types based on user role and control what shows up very easily. For instance you can make a custom post type called “tweens” with the user role … Read more
I found a way to hijack the comment before it’s attached to its post in the DB. Using the snippet below you can attach every comment to your dummy post. Just change COMMENT_ID to the ID of your dummy post. No hacking of core needed! <?php add_filter(‘preprocess_comment’, ‘akt_hijack_comment’); function akt_hijack_comment($comment) { define(‘AKT_REDIRECT_URL’, $comment[‘comment_post_ID’]); $comment[‘comment_post_ID’] = … Read more
As I suspected originally, it would appear that Akismet is dealing with the comments before comment.php gets a chance, and thus they avoid the blacklist check entirely. After disabling Akismet the comments are moved to the trash as they should be.
the best solution to block spam users register or comments is http://wordpress.org/plugins/cookies-for-comments/
One of our developer Mr. Ahsan Ullah found a very normal solution to that: He simply Refreshed the Permalink settings and it’s all set. From /wp-admin, going Settings » Permalinks, he clicked the Save Changes button. The permalink structure of the whole site was refreshed and the unwanted links were vanished from the site.