spam comments

  • My blog is “oldgoatbrews.com”. I have started getting spam comments (over 120 in two days) on some of my posts that have nothing at all to do with my post. I changed the comments setting to require approval, but now, I ahve to go in every couple of hours to mark all the comments as spam. Is there a way to get rid of this? Short of entering a bunch of key words that might be in the spam….all of these comments have nothing to do with each other.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance, OldGoat1

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  • Are you running Capcha on your comments to make sure they are being entered by humans? It sounds like you are getting a bot to write to your website comments.

    Thread Starter OldGoat1

    (@oldgoat1)

    No, I’m not. Not sure how to set that up. Can you get me going in the right direction? I am pretty new at this.

    Thanks for the VERY quick response.

    You will find captcha here:

    Captcha Plugin

    Install it into your site, activate it and follow its directions for getting it running on your comments pages. That should cut your spam way back. It may not eliminate it all together but it will stop the spambots from leaving their crap.

    Thread Starter OldGoat1

    (@oldgoat1)

    Great….thanks a bunch. Installing it now.

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