Stopping Wordpress Comment Spam Before It Starts

January 14th, 2007 at 11:05am My blog isn't terribly popular but I do have a good number of links to my plugins which has made me a more visible target for comment spammers. The built-in Wordpress spam filter does a pretty good job but it does nothing to stop bots from hammering my blog and eating up bandwith. One of my friends in my extended blog network had a post that tipped me off to a more active method of spam prevention, Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior works by analyzing the HTTP requests made by clients and running them through a set of tests like checking the user agent description. Before installing the script I was receiving about 200 spam comments per day and maybe 1 or 2 would slip through per week. Now I'll get maybe 1 a day in my spam queue. Not sure how much this affects the bandwith the spammers are using but it will definetely save a little on database.

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  • 1. Ayerst Carr  |  January 14th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Hi!!

    Thanks for your “trackback” comment on my site?

    I got a comment on my site that was a snippet from the post above. I am so curious what a trackback is and how it works.

    I need to find out why peoople use them.

    Very cool and thanks for visiting. The link on your site is bring me a couyple of hits per month.

    Thanks a million!

    tMan

  • 2. Angelo  |  January 14th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    Aye, it does work. I’ve not had many issues

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