Mike’s Personal Blog

Fighting comment spam is easy. Just install captcha and you’re all set. You won’t see comment spam again - unless of course a spammer deliberately enters spam content on your blog and enters the captcha code himself.

BUT MY BIG PROBLEM IS TRACKBACK SPAM! Trackback spam passes through captcha since it’s sent via well - a trackback. So what did I do? I copied the list of spam words from wordpress.org and pasted them in Wordpress Admin under Options -> Discussion in the box ‘Comment Spam Words’. To my surprise, trackback spam went down from 10 per day to only 1 per week! Not bad ei? To test it even more, I turned off the captcha plugin and still my spam is still at 1 per week. So I think this solves my problem.

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