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how to prevent the spam on search function?

I’d suggest prohibiting spam users first. But above all, I’m not aware about the performance of the Search Meter plugin. Using free tool like Google Analytics or StatCounter you can verify the searches really occurred or not. Workaround As you have the exact timestamp when the search occurred you can also get the user’s identity, … Read more

Automatically reject a comment if website field contains anything

Figured this out by editing the max url string length in comment.php from 200 to 1. Only problem is any wordpress update will overwrite this each time. How would I go about making this change in functions instead?

I want to change the WordPress comments file

You can change the URL for the action of the comment form like this: add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘wpse316762_comment_form_defaults’ ); function wpse316762_comment_form_defaults( $defaults ) { $defaults[ ‘action’ ] = site_url( ‘/error.php’ ); return $defaults; }

How to track down a phantom contact form?

How can I automatically delete comments that contain a URL?

Well the best way is to use a antispam plugin like Aksimet. Other captcha plugins can be helpful too, you just have to look for the captcha keyword in wordpress repository. If you want to do this manually, I can give you a hint. First of all, you need to know which action hook you … Read more

Using htaccess to prevent spam through wp-comments-post.php

That’s not going to stop the spammer, IMHO. Spmmers don’t even use your comment form. They ‘scrape’ the form (maybe, not required), and ‘post’ via a CURL process that sends the form fields. They don’t even have to visit your site – all they need for a comment post is the post ID. And that … Read more

Subpage is redirecting to spam site

Malware is somewhere in your site source code.It is not only in the page. It could be in upload folder, wp-core, themes and plugins.

Why does my admin email address keep changing to something random?

if your admin email changes, I suppose it’s not a good signal, so it’s very important understand why it’s happening. Some malware usually have this behaviours, so I think you can start from: have you checked if your plugins, theme and WP core are updated to latest versions? if no – backup all and proceed … Read more

How to prevent spams from admin-ajax.php file?

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