My blog is getting spam attacked

[theromfinder]

I have to review all the spam comments posted to my blog everyday! how do I put a stop to this?
I am copmletely out of ideas and it is very annoying to get tens of emails everyday with spam comments to my blog needing approval!

 

[Mrnewbie]

Try this plugin as it has helped me greatly

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ironclad-captcha-wp-plugin

 

[bobbys]

Why not just turn off comments?

..or install Akismet, that will kill off 95% of the spam.

 

[ManicMystery]

As bobbys suggested, install Akismet and it will stop 95% of spam comments getting through.

Make sure you sign up for a new account to get a different API key for each website you run and then comment on your own blog with the link of your competitor. It will probably get through and await approval but you report it as spam instead.

 

[Skygrinder]

Yep Akismet is great.

 

[bizroot]

1) Install askimet...
2) Put recaptcha plugin...
3) Put 2 or more links in spam folder...
4) Set comments must be approved by admin...
5) Put some ban words
6) Use this code for cleaning junk

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

Should be enough to solve your problems...

 

[ways2012]

Hello, Im having after 2 weeks now almost 9k comments using akismet etc.
But my question is how to clean all those 9k in 1 go or very easely. Really thanks in advance!!

 

[linkdropper4]

Go to PHPMYAdmin find your database for your blog. Click on SQL and run the code which was provided above by BIZROOT.

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

That will delete every comment which you haven't approved yet. I just thought I would add some instructions in case you didn't know how to run that.

 

[ways2012]

Go to PHPMYAdmin find your database for your blog. Click on SQL and run the code which was provided above by BIZROOT.

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

That will delete every comment which you haven't approved yet. I just thought I would add some instructions in case you didn't know how to run that.

Thank you very veyr much I really didnt know that. I also still dont know how to get into my phpmyamdin I use filezilla to upload eveyrthing. But reallyt much thanks I will try to figure that out.

 

[britcpa]

As bobbys suggested, install Akismet and it will stop 95% of spam comments getting through.

Make sure you sign up for a new account to get a different API key for each website you run and then comment on your own blog with the link of your competitor. It will probably get through and await approval but you report it as spam instead.

that, is evil *hur hur hurrrr*

:*****:

 

[britcpa]

1) Install askimet...
2) Put recaptcha plugin...
3) Put 2 or more links in spam folder...
4) Set comments must be approved by admin...
5) Put some ban words
6) Use this code for cleaning junk

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

Should be enough to solve your problems...

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Re: My blog is getting spam attacked
Go to PHPMYAdmin find your database for your blog. Click on SQL and run the code which was provided above by BIZROOT.

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

That will delete every comment which you haven't approved yet. I just thought I would add some instructions in case you didn't know how to run that.

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two excellent posts from two clever people. thanks for the advice from both of you. on a separate note, i cant help laughing at the wicked way MANIC MYSTERY uses akismet against his competitors. dont know that i'll ever use that tactic myself, but it appealed to my sense of humour...

 

[Kaistar]

Make sure you sign up for a new account to get a different API key for each website you run

Why a different API ?
I've used the same key on dozens of blogs and never seen anything bad happen because of it.

What point am I missing ?

Not asking in a sarcastic way, just always learning ;-)

 

[orzyman]

very handy thread

 

[Blazy]

Best thread of 2011.