Combating Comment Spam On Wordpress

*NOTE: Only wordpress users will find it useful, as this plugin is only meant for wordpress blogs.

The past few days around my blog I’ve found very irritating comments from people advertiisng their products like viagra, vioxx and etc. Really very irritating, as those are spam and not comments with substance (I define the word “substance” by saying that the comment is related to the content of the post”. :mad:

I went around Google and went to the WordPress Codex site, Combating Comment Spam.

There are a lot of suggested ways where a wordpress user can actually comabt comment spamming, but then I’ve chosen Spam Karma Version 2.0 (Final) because I am lazy to edit my scripts and files, and installing this plugin is really easy – download, extract, copy the SK2 folder, upload to the plugin directory udner wp-content, activate plugin, then manage it under the “Manage” section. Easy!

While checking my wordpress blog compatibility Spam Karma showed some errors on my comments.php, as the template isn’t customized fully for WP 1.5.1. So I follow the instructions on this page (teaches you how to edit your comments.php) and got it fixed quickly.

Got rid of this pertinent problem of my blog. Yahoo! :grin:

Know more about the creator of Spam Karma and the plugin itself, go here!

A little notice here. You can actually backup your entire blog! Check it out here at the WordPress Codex.

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Terry Mun (Teddy)

I'm relatively new to the design world - only to start learning HTML in secondary school and then moving on to (X)HTML and CSS in college. Since then I have been hand-coding my designs using notepad, alongside with the amazing help from Firebug. I embrace photography as a personal persuit during my free time, and I prefer spending the rest of it doing meaningless quizzes on Facebook and destroying the world (in Rampage World Tour, that is).

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Posted in Tutorials, on July 29, 2005 at 1:48 pm \ Leave a trackback

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Michelle
July 29, 2005 at 4:19 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

i use spam karma 2 :D no more spams!! hate those stupid spams!! and i also just upgrade my wp to 1.5.1
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teddY
July 30, 2005 at 10:38 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Hey, Michelle, congrats!!! :)
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TreeFrog
February 22, 2006 at 10:53 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Awesome blog you have. I enjoyed reading it this evening.
Peace
TreeFrog
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JiggyWittit
March 6, 2006 at 10:38 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Kewl blog you got goin on up here.
Peace, JiggyWittit
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elod@yahoo.com
June 21, 2006 at 3:15 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Nice site! David
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Nasir
December 13, 2006 at 7:10 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Hi Guys since last three day I am facing a Huge Problem on my blog, The comments form is
not working. I tried to revert all the possible changes.
Whenever someone tries to send a comment, it takes them to a blank wp-comments-post.php
Any help will be appreciated and rewarded through Paypal…
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Pozycjonowanie
December 18, 2006 at 9:00 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website – now its offline too much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland
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Terry
December 19, 2006 at 4:35 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Nasir: I will help but can you kindly provide your blog address?

Pozycjonowanie: I agree. There are just too many spams around – and they are not actually very harmful to us but extremely dangerous to servers since they tend to overload them with data. You could use Spam Karma 2 by Dr Dave if you’re running on wordpress.

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Name *

Your name is required. Why?

So that I can address you personally (which I'm more than happy to do).
Everyone loves their name to be called, right? Nobody wants to be referred to as 'a certain someone' or Mr X (X-Men members aside).
If your post too much spam, your name will be imprinted on a personalised voodoo doll, completely free of charge. I'm just joking!

Email *

Your email is needed. Why?

Your email is, and will, never be given out to any third party under any conditions (except for people sneaking up behind me when I'm on WP admin).
So that I can contact you personally in case of certain issues that I wish to address personally.
If you post too much spam, I'll email the same spam you've posted 10 times back to you, completely free of charge.

Website

You can always leave a personal URL behind

It can be anything - most people put their blog URL, their facebook page, their Twitter URL, their MySpace or etc.
I give love back by saying NO to no-follow. All of your webbie links are dofollows instead.

Twitter ID (What?) http://twitter.com/

Twitter. Twitter. Twitter.

What is Twitter?: Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length.
What is my Twitter ID?: To get a Twitter ID, you simply have to sign up for an account at Twitter.com. Your ID will be in the format of your profile's URL - http://twitter.com/[userid].

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