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approve,spam,trash etc. options are not coming on comments in admin panel

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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

Spams, Scams on WordPress site – what to do?

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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.

Prevent registration except through form

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I found a good answer and slightly modified it on a related question . It uses htaccess, and redirects any requests to wp-login.php?action=register. # BLOCK SPAM REGISTRATION REQUESTS (wp-login.php?action=register) <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*(wp-login.php\?action=register).* [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://isoreiki.com/about/account </IfModule> Notes: In the answer I linked to he totally blocked these requests. However I … Read more

Get Commentor IP When Marking Comment As Spam

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You are missing 2 parameters in your function report_spam. Also the priority should not be 1. Try the code below. add_action(‘transition_comment_status’, ‘report_spam’, 10, 3); function report_spam($new_status, $old_status, $comment){ if($new_status == ‘spam’){ var_dump($comment->comment_author_IP); die; } } I’ve set die so that you can check and manipulate what you want.