Comments on: WordPress Spam Blocker

By: DianeV

DianeV — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:47:31 +0000

Having thought about it, the only problem I see with combining the spamwords for all the fields is that it *could* make posting certain things difficult.

I've had a bit of trouble with that, where I couldn't use a non-spam word that I would normally use. Had to edit the thing.

And so, I look forward to (whenever we finish) the coding for the external files for the spamblocker.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:43:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: Goodwin

Goodwin — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:41:15 +0000

You cat rewrite it to look like this:

$spamwords = array(
	'word1',
	'word2',
	'word3',
);

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:34:52 +0000

Interesting. If the first line could be one per line, that would make a much tidier file.

By: Goodwin

Goodwin — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:16:25 +0000

Nice idea! I think the code could be optimized a little:

$spamwords = array('word1','word2','word3'); // spam words to search for $postfields = array('author', 'email', 'url', 'comment'); // $_POST fields to check foreach($postfields as $postfield) foreach($spamwords as $spamword) if(eregi($spamword, $_POST[$postfield]) !== false) die("Denied");

By: DianeV

DianeV — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:33:48 +0000

Excellent — that's another way to go.

Although, now that I think of it, I believe normal spam blockers flag spam, but it still lands in the WordPress moderation queue. The above script doesn't do that — it blocks spam comments from being posted at all. Pure bliss. :)

By: Harry Maugans

Harry Maugans — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:35:29 +0000

Ah, very nice. About a month ago I got tired of cleaning up the comments on my own blog, so I went out looking for an anti-spam script. I ended up deciding on "dr Dave's Spam Karma 2″, which has worked out great. It has thresholds and uses a semi-intelligent algorithm in deciding if it's spam or not. For example, if someone clicks on a post of mine, and a few seconds later posts a comment (ie, no time to read it), it flags as spam. :)