This morning I have been tweaking a real estate wordpress site of my friend and noticed there are some comments posted which are irrelevant to the news articles. So I researched on how to reduce the spam in the comment section. Some of you already know this simple method but hopefully someone who is just starting a new wordpress site might find this useful.

1. Open your wordpress admin and go to Settings > Discussion.

2. In the Discussion Settings, you can see two large input boxes (Comment Moderation and Comment Blacklist) where you can enter any word, email, url or ip per line.

Here are some of the best words that you can load in the input boxes:

Code:

-online
4u 
adderall 
adipex 
advicer 
ambien 
baccarat 
baccarrat 
blackjack 
bllogspot 
booker 
byob 
car-rental-e-site 
car-rentals-e-site 
carisoprodol 
casino 
casinos 
chatroom 
cialis 
citalopram 
clomid 
coolcoolhu 
coolhu 
credit-card-debt 
credit-report-4u 
cwas 
cyclen 
cyclobenzaprine 
cymbalta 
dating-e-site 
day-trading 
debt-consolidation 
debt-consolidation-consultant 
discreetordering 
doxycycline 
duty-free 
dutyfree 
ephedra 
equityloans 
facial 
femdom 
fetish 
fioricet 
flowers-leading-site 
freenet 
freenet-shopping 
fucking 
gambling 
gambling- 
hair-loss 
health-insurancedeals-4u 
holdem 
holdempoker 
holdemsoftware 
holdemtexasturbowilson 
homeequityloans 
homefinance 
hotel-dealse-site 
hotele-site 
hotelse-site 
hydrocodone 
incest 
insurance-quotesdeals-4u 
insurancedeals-4u 
jrcreations 
levitra 
lexapro 
lipitor 
lorazepam 
macinstruct 
mortgage-4-u 
mortgagequotes 
online-gambling 
onlinegambling-4u 
ottawavalleyag 
ownsthis 
oxycodone 
oxycontin 
palm-texas-holdem-game 
paxil 
penis 
percocet 
pharmacy 
phentermine 
poker 
poker-chip 
porn 
poze 
propecia 
pussy 
rental-car-e-site 
ringtone 
ringtones 
roulette  
sex 
shemale 
shoes 
slot-machine 
texas holdem 
texas-holdem 
thorcarlson 
top-e-site 
top-site 
tramadol 
trim-spa 
ultram 
valeofglamorganconservatives 
valium 
valtrex 
viagra 
vioxx 
xanax 
zolus

Through this simple process, you are able to save huge amount of time every time a someone posts unwanted comments/links/words in moderating/cleaning your wordpress blog.