Comments on: Stop Spammers and Other Scumbags with a Custom Blacklist

By: Mekz

Mekz — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:25:57 +0000

Good Tips! Thanks much.

By: bobbi

bobbi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:56:58 +0000

Thanks for this Jeff! I closed down my MT website to comments years ago, and a blog without comments is simple talking to myself. Just this week I starting migrating it over to WP, and these spam tips came at a good time for me as I really want to run as few plugins as necessary.

By: John Hoff - WP Blog Host

John Hoff - WP Blog Host — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:15:55 +0000

Jeff, great list. I don’t have a better one to share with you but I’ll be sure to pass the word around and hopefully we can help others defend their blogs some from these jerks.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:42:07 +0000

Actually not using the spam list here at digwp.com, but good suggestion nonetheless. Will add [/url] to the list. Thanks :)

By: Ozh

Ozh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:54:15 +0000

heh. My comment was eaten by the spam list I guess.

What I was saying was:
“(/url)” scores better than “(url=” because sometimes you get comments with links like “(url)somelink(/url)”
(replace parenthesis with brackets)

By: Urda

Urda — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:12:54 +0000

BUT it certainly doesn’t HURT to have them in your moderation list :)

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:25:51 +0000

Will add to list immediately. Good call.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:29:53 +0000

The one that scores most for me is
[url=

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:12:39 +0000

Yes, when placed in the Comment Moderation field, any matching comments are moved to the moderation queue for your approval/rejection.

If Akismet is working for you, then there is probably no need to worry about this blacklist.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:10:12 +0000

There are a few generic words, but most of them are specific phrases associated with gambling, pharmaceuticals and porn. As mentioned, feel free to remove/add anything to suit your specific needs.

Thanks for the tip on the bbcode forum tags — once I figure out what those are, I will include them in the list.