Todd Lahman

Please post all of the code from your comments.php file to https://pastebin.com/, and I will then reply with a link to pastebin with the new code for your comments.php file.

I appreciate the offer to help troubleshoot.

A well coded plugin should never have a conflict with any other plugin, and since I am using the default configuration there should not be any issue.

You have created a fantastic plugin, but it appears you may have overlooked a few details that are causing issues.

I will resolve this issue by writing my own subscribe to comments plugin that I will use on my blog.

I do appreciate your time in responding, and especially appreciate your offer to help me directly. Keep up the good work on your plugin. There appear to be a lot of people very satisfied with your work.

The text you are seeing is something coded in your theme, and is not related to Spam Free WordPress. If the theme uses the comment_form function, then in the Spam Free WordPress settings you can choose to turn off “Remove HTML from Comments.” If that setting doesn’t work, and you still see the text you mentioned above, it means the theme doesn’t use the comment_form function and is therefore not able to be removed by Spam Free WordPress, so the text will then have to be removed by modifying the theme comments.php file.

Run the following SQL statement:

DELETE from wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = "sfw_comment_form_password" ;

If you’re not sure how to do this, then wait until the next version of Spam Free WordPress comes out. Install the plugin, activate it, then deactivate it, and delete it using the plugin control panel, and it will automatically delete everything from the database.

The current version of Spam free WordPress is 1.5.1.

No, the current version does not change anything in your comments.php file.

geneghis,

Blocking IP addresses is done for your blog or blogs only. There is no spam database of IP addresses that would be useful for others, since that would only cause false positive issues.

Remove the code you added to the custom_functions.php file.

You will need to post all the code from your comments.php file at https://pastebin.com/, then post a link to that pastbin code here. I will reply with a pastbin link that will contain the modified code you can use to replace your existing comments.php code.

When I looked at your comment form the “post comment” button was greyed-out, which means a comment cannot be posted. I modified the script again with the necessary changes. Replace all the code in the comments.php file with the code from pastbin below.

https://pastebin.com/Z7Vx3i81

ellajran,

The problem you had could have been fixed if only you had asked for help.

FYI, the only time Spam Free WordPress doesn’t work as expected is when the WordPress version is older than that which is required by Spam Free WordPress, or if the password field is not visible on the comment form. Both of these items can be fixed easily.

Use the “raw code” from the pastbin link below to replace all the code in your comments.php file.

https://pastebin.com/Z7Vx3i81

Let me know if this works as expected.

I thought you just had an extra “Leave a reply,” but you have two comment forms, so I’ll need you to post all the code from your comments.php file at https://pastebin.com/, and I will reply with a pastbin link that will contain the modified code you can use to replace your existing comments.php code.

On the frontend Spammers submit posts directly to the comments.php file, but with DISQUS in place they will instead see their Javascript, so the Spam Free WordPress password will not be visible.

Spammers most often submit spam directly to the backend wp-comments-post.php file. Spam Free WordPress hooks into this file to prevent automated spam that DISQUS doesn’t protect against.

In your case once the plugin is activated you are protected against spam, as long as DISQUS does not all unauthorized comments using the comments.php file.

Leave a comment to test it with and without the password.

In the comments.php file find this line:

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website','woothemes'); ?></small></label></p>

After the line above, insert the line below:

<?php if(function_exists ('tl_spam_free_wordpress_comments_form')) { tl_spam_free_wordpress_comments_form(); } ?>

On the Spam Free WordPress settings page you can change the Password Field Size to 22, and the Tab Index to 4.

The code will need to be posted to pastbin, and then the link to that pastebin code posted here, so I can see it.

Provide a link to a post page so I can see the comment form, and I will post the code you’ll need to remove. Always make a backup copy of the comments.php file before making changes.