Combat Comment Spam

Thanks for the mention podz ?? It should be https://sm.farook.org/files/WPBlacklist26.zip now though. There is one annoying bug in WPBlacklist 2.6 – I have a require line in the blacklist-install.php file which goes something like “require_once(‘/wp-include/wpblfunctions.php’);” and the first slash causes problems if your WP installation is not in the root folder of your site. So that should be changed to “require_once(‘wp-include/wpblfunctions.php’);”. A bug fix 2.6.1 release is on the way but it includes a few other changes as well and I haven’t had the time to test them yet ??

Oh yes, I’ve found the RBL feature in the new releases of WPBlacklist to be fairly effective. I have bl.spamcop.net and sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org added to my blacklist as RBL entries and they have caught quite a few comment spammers who escaped the other items on the blacklist. Hopefully, this helps some others too ??

Thanks guys. Freaking jerk has spammed me for two days and I’m getting sick of it…

I wonder if the IP deny feature of cpanel will keep him out? Yes, I know, I not longer had just gotten WordPress running and was composing a test blog when this parasite inserts a stupid comment.

Can I delete the wpblacklist-install.php after initially using it once?

Yes, you can delete wpblacklist-install.php if you want but it does no harm to keep it either since it’s not destructive. All it does when you run it is to create the blacklist table *if it does not exist* and do some upgrade routines.