Comments on: WordPress Spam Blocking

By: Dsw

Dsw — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:01:32 +0000

Everyone is using unique methods to keep spammers away from blogs.
Like I saw on a blog of which I don't remember the URL. You have to select all the monkies photos from different animal photos to submit your comment.

I will try your suggested code and see the results.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:18:53 +0000

The above code is case sensitive, which requires at least three versions of every word. I've posted a better version of the above that handles the case sensitivity at WordPress Spam Blocker.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:30:03 +0000

NOTE: The above code only blocks the precise wording used; for example, if you target the word "spam", then Spam, SPAM, etc. will still get through. I've had Darin rewrite the script it in order to ensure that one doesn't have to write multiple entries to a case-sensitive script. It works, and I'd post it except that there's something coming up that's even better. That is, I have several blogs and clients with blogs, which would still mean editing/uploading for each blog each time we needed to add to the spamwords list. So I realized that my best case scenario would be to modify the wp-comments-post.php file to access an external list of spamwords — so that I'd only have to modify the external list and upload it ... which means I could upload the same list to a bunch of blogs in minutes. Darin has come up with some coding. The code is different. As soon as we've tested it a bit, I'll point you all over to Darin's site.

By: DianeV

DianeV — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:40:33 +0000

Okay; just wanted to make sure I was being clear.

By: Telian Adlam

Telian Adlam — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:26:47 +0000

..it doesn't trap them — it prevents them from being posted at all.

That was simply bad wording on my part, I know it will delete the comment before even getting to the DB, and that's what I need.

Although I have comment moderation enabled, dealing with hundreds of these comments at a time is just plain annoying.

If I choose my words carefully (and there are some obvious ones), then it shouldn't be a problem for the legitimate commenters.

~ Teli

By: DianeV

DianeV — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:53 +0000

Okay … but it doesn't trap them — it prevents them from being posted at all.

That's the only problem; if a legitimate comment contains one of the blocked words, it doesn't get posted.

By: Telian Adlam

Telian Adlam — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:33:22 +0000

You know, Diane. I went the longest time spam free b/c of WP's native spam filtering, then I upgraded to a spam plugin, and now the spam has started again.

Seemingly innocuous messages, sometimes for saccharine and complimentary – but still spam.

Now, I think I will try the method you've detailed to at least trap the stoopid spam messages.

~Teli

By: DianeV

DianeV — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:02:14 +0000

Two whole days; no spam comments.

By: DianeV

DianeV — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:28:31 +0000

A whole day, and zero spam comments. And here I was waiting to get more spamword text.