Is the tagline area spam-bot proof?

Anything that is found in the publicly accessible HTML of a website or page can be indexed by Search Engines, or spam bots. If you don’t want a spam bot finding something, don’t put it on a public page.

WordPress Phone Verification

Of course this is possible it would just require some custom coding. This is an open ended question so I’ll give you an open ended answer of how I may go about this. Add phone number field to user contact Use the profile_update hook to store a random code associated with that number Create a … Read more

How is my non-published blog getting so much spam?

What are your privacy settings? Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Privacy If it is set to I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers, then your site is actively being crawled/indexed by search engines, and thus visible to spammers. If it is set … Read more

How to locate & delete hidden pages on a site

Posts/pages are stored in the wp_posts table. So you could get into the table and delete records. But, not recommended, unless you really know what you are doing with the tables. My procedure would be to re-install WP (from the Update page; reinstall WP), then delete any non-WP (the ‘Twenty*’ ones) themes, and remove all … Read more

getting casino links on my woocommerce site [closed]

Your site is almost definitely compromised. Doing your own cleanup may not be worth the time and effort because reinfection is likely if you miss a single infected file. At this point I recommend to my clients that they get professional help. You may be able to get more details from a site scan by … Read more

Comment Spammed vs Trashed

In vanilla WordPress the only difference is that trashed comments get deleted automatically after (customizable) time span. Adding plugins to the picture – it might make difference to what/how specific plugin learns from incoming spam.