Stop Media Comment Spamming

Description

If you find your media file attachments are being targeted by spam comments then here is the solution for you.

Stop Media Comment Spamming removes the ability for visitors to comment on media attachments. It does not remove commenting from any other part of your WordPress installation.

Visitors will still be able to comment on your posts and pages.

Why would you need this plugin?

WordPress natively allows comments to be left on any file in the Media Library.

Unfortunately spammers can target this and quickly leave horrible and unrelated comments on your site.

WordPress provides no way in Admin Dashboard to disable this feature.

Some of the spam seems to get through popular spam filtering plugins.

You still want to allow visitors to comments on your posts and pages.

If only there was a plugin that allowed you to stop visitors leaving comments on media files.

Ta da! Here’s one.

Plugin Page

Stop Media Comment Spamming

Screenshots

Installation

1. Download the plugin zip file & unzip it
2. Copy the folder stop-media-comment-spamming into the directory /wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Your media library file attachments now have their comments disabled.

No more spam for those.

FAQ

Does the plugin do anything else?

Nope.

Reviews

Spamproblem solved

oliversaar May 23, 2023

Works as it should and solved the latest bulk of spam entries in our images.

Works superbly

RossMitchell February 10, 2019

It just does what it says. It beats me why this is not part of WordPress core. I install this plugin on every site I develop.

Works perfectly

webmystery February 24, 2017 1 reply

I uploaded a bunch of media in a new site before I remembered to turn comments off. I installed and activated this plugin and voila – all media pages now have comments disabled. Thank you.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.8.3

• Tested on WordPress 6.0

1.8.2

• Tested on WordPress 5.6

1.8.1

• Tested on WordPress 5.0.3

1.8.0

• Moved to minor release versioning (added extra .0)
• Tested on WordPress 4.8.1
• Added Requires PHP tag
• Renamed lc_ function prefix to zpd_

1.7

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.7

1.6

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.5.2

1.5

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.4
• Changed contributor to DeveloperWil
• Removed closing PHP tag at end of main file

1.4

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.3

1.3

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.1

1.2

• Checked compatibility with WordPress 4.0
• Bug fix for PHP object error

1.1

• Corrected some typos

1.0

• Initial release.