Today We are discussing about How To Make Your WordPress Blog Spam
Free.Wordpress is one of the powerful and famous open source blogging
software. Most of blogs are wordpress as it is free and easy. So
spammers can easily target the wordpress blogs. I am talking about spam
comments. Most of spammers are looking to promote their products or for
build backlinks. Here are some tips to prevent them.
Make Your WordPress Blog Spam Free
# Akismet WordPress plugin
This should be the first important step. Akismet is an automatic
spam killer. You should install and activate Akismet plugin. This
WordPress plugin will automatically detect spam comments,trackback and
protect your site.
Akismet plugin is installed on your wordpress blog after you install
it. You need a Akismet API Key to activate and you can create the API
Key at Akismet.com. It is Free.
# Always moderate comments
It is difficult to moderate each comments. Even you install Akismet
Plugin,there is chance for spam, or sometimes it will move non spam
comments to spam page. As it is just a plugin not human. Moderation is
not essential when you activate Akismet but better is to take a look at
comments once a week. Change comments settings from default settings.
You can change it in menu -> Settings > Discussion.
Better is to leave the following option:
“Comment author must have a previously approved comment”
Spammers can easily make you fool, they may appreciate your post to
approve comments. When you tick this option, spammers comment will
automatically approve whether you made any mistake in first time comment
moderation.
Make sure that you check the following option:
“Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”
# Use Comment Blacklist
This is an another great way to stop lots of spam. You can do it in
comments settings. In comments blacklist section you can enter the
words, IP address, URL or email that you need to block. If any comments
detected any of these it will moves to spam folder.
# Use Captcha
A Captcha can stop spammers. It can block most of comments which are
automatically generated by any software or anything like that. There are
lots of captcha plugins available for wordpress. Here are some
suggestions
1-WP-Recaptcha
2-SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
3-Really Simple CAPTCHA
Another way to stop guest commenting spam is to make comment section
only for registered users. To use these settings check the following
options in comments settings:
“Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
Problem with this way is that this is not acceptable way to some bloggers as it is not allow guest commenting.
Make sure that you are installed the latest version of WordPress. These points will help you to stop spam commenting.
That’s all…Don’t forget to use the comment box for your valuable thoughts…
At last have a nice day…