How to stop comment spam
Tagged Under : Akismet, Blog, Iphone, Plugins, Space And Time, Spam, Spring Cleaning, Train
Its been awhile since I last login to blog. Last I did want while playing with WordPress iPhone app on the train. Today I managed to find sometime after a few crazy months to come in and do some spring cleaning.
Guess what, 195 comments that’s the figure I was greeted with since my last login to RyanPham.com. All of which are just spam. This comment spam is quite irritating as it takes up alot of space and time to actually remove them all.
Ok its all my fault for not installing or activating Akismet and other spam plugins. So now, I am here to make it right.Here’s what I did to stop comment spam on wordpress short of changing the default comment page
- Activate Akismet with my API key
- Dont allow a set of keywords
- Close all comments after a set amount of days
- All comments to be approved by moderator
That’s about what I just did, do you have more to add?
