Category: Comment Spam
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Spaminator install
I followed Niall’s example and installed Spaminator on my blog – I have turned off the AuthImage plugin to make commenting easier for people. Spaminator seems quite good at catching spam comments but it deleted a comment today which was genuine so I am a little concerned that it will require monitoring – that comment…
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Combatting WordPress Trackback Spam
Having combatted WordPress comment spam I now tackle a new phenomenon, trackback spam
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Comments fixed! – AuthImage 2.0.4 breaks AuthImage addressing.
Well, it serves me right. After crowing about how good AuthImage is to everyone, I forgot to check it after getting my hosting company to “rebuild php with the required modules“. It was still broken on this site, meaning no-one could comment! This time, when I accessed the authimage.php file directly asking for an image…
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Google acts to halt comment spam
Google have announced a new tag that should remove the motive for content spamming. From now on, when Google MSN, and Yahoo! see the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, they will now no longer index any such links. Keith McDuffee – the author of the very excellent AuthImage – a Captcha comment spam blocking WordPress plugin…
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AuthImage error – Call to undefined function: imagettftext()
I was using AuthImage – Keith McDuffee’s fantastic WordPress plugin to prevent comment spam. I wrote about the process which led me to install this plugin last year. Recently however, I realised that there was a problem with the plugin – it wasn’t displaying the code for commenters to enter, so no-one was able to…
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AuthImage not displaying image
The initial AuthImage install didn’t go according to plan. When the plug-in was installed, no image appeared – therefore no comments could be left, genuine or otherwise. After scratching my head for some time, I remembered that this blog is in a separate folder from my WordPress installation. I checked back over the AuthImage code…
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Stopping WordPress blog comment spam – the conclusion!
Renaming the wp-comments-post.php file had a drastic effect on the comment spam – it appears very many blog comment spammers go directly to this file to submit their spam. After changing the name of this file, not only did the amount of spam fall off significantly but the number of 404’s for this file ballooned…
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WordPress comment spam yet again
Unbelieveably, I am still getting comment spam through the various measures I have put in place. Just this evening, I have re-named the wp-comments-post.php file – previously I had edited the contents of this file, changing comment variable names but this hasn’t deterred all the comment spammers! Hopefully, renaming the file will further reduce the…