My blog was never in the radar of spammers, thanks to the simple wordpress plug-in WP Captcha Free. The plug-in was so good that it almost blocked all the spam comments. But sadly, it is not the same story anymore.
For the past two days, I’m seeing lots of spam comments, escaping the spam filter, which try to sell youknowwhat thing to my readers. Luckily I had enabled the comment moderation. So all the spam comments ended up in my comments spam folder. But I was clueless why my spam blocking plug-in didn’t work at the first place.
Instead of wondering why it happened, I tried to implement some alternative ways to fight spam.
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In WordPress discussion settings page, I added some key words that these spam comments usually contains to the comment blocklist. To tighten up the filter further I took the IP addresses and email IDs from these comments and added them too to the comment blocklist.
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Closed the comments for the posts that are older than 14 days.
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For the time being, installed the reCaptcha plug-in to block the spams. But this impacts my loyal readers, so I’ll be removing this plug-in as soon as the spam comments are reduced. Update: plug-in is now deactivated.
Now the number of spam comments are considerably reduced. But, I want to reduce them to zero. What do you do to keep the spams in control in your blog?
