How to block spam in wordpress ? If you are struggling with spam everyday, here’s a few tips to get your blog protected from spam :

  1. Akismet
    Akismet is a plugin that comes along with wordpress, just activate it in your plugins directory and you’re set. It works by filtering comments through akismet server and put comments categorized as spam on moderation. But on occasssion it will also filter out normal comments.
  2. Buillt in comment moderation
    Moderate comments before being posted, such as comments with multiple links, comments containing specific words. You can find this option in the wordpress Settings-> Discussion tab.
  3. Built in Black list words
    By black listing words, comment submission will be denied when including words that are blacklisted, but be careful because it also blocks words containing part of the black listed word (e.g “ass” will block assistance, pass, masses, etc). You can find this option in the wordpress Settings-> Discussion tab.
  4. Replace spam words with other words
    This plugin will replace words in comments into other words before being posted. It is useful if there are banned words from the hosting server, or if you simply want to hide several words from being displayed.
  5. Use captcha (Recaptcha) validator
    Using a captcha, you can block comments most effectively, because users need to enter a confirmation word/numbers before they can submit the comment. So it will block all the spam from bots. But it has a drawback that makes real visitors hesitate to post because there’s extra work to do, and sometimes have difficulties reading the captcha on the first try. Re-captcha is a captcha validator that helps digitizing books, so they say. Read books prevent spam ! and why not ?

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