Spam troubles

Turning off comments is not a spam solution. For one thing, it’s like curing the disease by shooting the patient. For another thing, most spam is trackback spam these days.

Use anti-spam plugins to block the spam and let the good comments through. Akismet. Bad Behavior. Spam Karma 2. These plugins work, and work well.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Combating_Comment_Spam

I use this one. No spam ever got through. It took a while before I had it set up properly, but I’m very happy with it.

Akismet is a great option to stop spam!

While I will look at one of your possible solutions, you still have not answered the first part of my question. How are they still able to post spam through the comments if they are disabled on every post?

Did you also disable “pings” (pingbacks and trackbacks)? If not, then this is the likely entry point.

I have comments turned on and use Akismet and Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam, but I’m still getting quite a bit of spam. About 30 a day. It’s not a real big deal, because Akismet catches all of them and I just one button to delete them all.

The majority don’t seem to be trackbacks as they don’t have the same formatting as a trackback.

I’ve never cared much about it, but I’m currently having cpu overload issues at my host, so I’m trying to reduce any unnecessary load if possible.

Are these commenters using a trackback mechanism, that doesn’t format it as a trackback? It all appears automated, as they aren’t showing up in my goggle analytics, but do show up in web logs.