Comments on: You Don’t Need Any Plugins to Stop Comment Spam

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:37:54 +0000

Not yet, but I’ve been meaning to do that. I have it on the list now so hopefully I will get to it next week. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Steve Holderness

Steve Holderness — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:37:54 +0000

Jeff, did you ever post your personal WordPress blacklist other than what you show at Perishable Press? I can’t seem to locate if you did.

By: Jason Bradbury

Jason Bradbury — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:21:22 +0000

I disagree, you should use the wordpress plugin. I also use a spam blacklist tool I use to check the lists in real-time… spamblacklist.co.uk

By: samaycsa

samaycsa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:51:37 +0000

I tend to disagree that WordPress alone will be able to fend off the comment spam. Yes it has tools built in, you can be notified of any new comments and go through an approval queue but then you would be doing moderation all the time instead of website building and content writing. Akismet use to be a great plugin, but it has now been superceeded with even better Molum, which eliminates moderation completely so you can focus on better things, besides it relieves your server of the headaches as the spam filtering is done on their server using their technology and black lists. If you are interested, you can look at an article I did which shows the advantages of using Mollom and how easy it is to integrate with a content management website http://indiawebsearch.com/content/step-by-step-installing-mollom-module-on-a-drupal-site

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:02 +0000

Trying to make a point? I could have easily deleted this comment, but I’ll leave it as an example of something that could easily be blacklisted, especially considering that real words don’t include numbers. Makes it all too easy ;)

By: Anonymously

Anonymously — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:14:52 +0000

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By: Bojan

Bojan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:43 +0000

I like more to use a plugin like intensedebate or disqus, their scripts will load the comments and moderate them. With them you will not lose comments, if there is a problem and you need to upload backups.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:35:01 +0000

Fantastic thread.

By: Tinh

Tinh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:07:06 +0000

I had the same post like you but not detailed like this one. I have drafted but not yet published and just knew this through WPwebhost. Thanks

By: Alen

Alen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:06:43 +0000

Nice article, but Askimet makes life easier.