Still receiving spam comments after disabling comments

  • maineyak

    (@maineyak)


    10 years ago

    I have commenting turned off on my site, I have disabled pingbacks, I have removed the comment form from the template, deleted everything in theme/comment.php. The only way I got it to stop was to also delete everything in wp-includes/comment.php, but since this last upgrade, I get errors when deleting everything inside wp-includes/comment.php.

    Now I’m starting to get spam comments again. How can I stop this once and for all??? How are they able to post comments when i have them disabled???

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  • Justin Greer

    (@justingreerbbi)

    I would not remove anything from the core. For the most part the core is secure an themes and plugins are culprits of exploits.

    Have you tried turning off commenting using a filter of sorts? If you run a scan a malware on your site, is your site clean?

    Thread Starter maineyak

    (@maineyak)

    Yes, my site is clean. I don’t understand about turning off comments with filters, why doesn’t the feature in the admin to turn them off not work?

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    use a security plugin or a captcha plugin, robots can’t answer questions…

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