Increase in spam comments in WordPress system

  • Resolved James Hunt

    (@bonkerz)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    I’ve moved to pipDisqus from the official Disqus plugin which I have used on my blog for several years. pipDisqus seems to work well with much faster page load speeds, thanks!

    However since installing I have seen a big rise in spam comments that come through on the WordPress comment system (not Disqus). Not sure how the spammers are getting through. But weird that this wasn’t a problem before and is now, any ideas?

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  • Plugin Author pipdig

    (@pipdig)

    Hi @bonkerz,

    The spam comment filtering is all handled by Disqus in the same way when using this plugin or the official plugin. So I believe you must be experiencing a higher rate of spam coincidentally at the same time as switching plugins. However the support team at Disqus might be able to give more information as to where the spam is coming from, as they have more visibility on that.

    Edit: I just realised I misread your question and it was in fact relating to the WordPress comments system rather than Disqus. It sounds like those comments might be coming from xmlrpc spam bots perhaps. If so, signing up to Cloudflare (note below) will help with that. I’d recommend that as a first step to try.

    One thing which may help is to connect your site to Cloudflare. They have a free plan which should help to reduce spam comments and also boost general site security too.

    Thread Starter James Hunt

    (@bonkerz)

    Thanks. The site is already behind CloudFlare. I added an xmlrpc rule to my functions earlier, let’s see what happens. Thanks.

    Plugin Author pipdig

    (@pipdig)

    You may want to create a Cloudflare WAF rule to block the ‘comments-post.php’ too (unless you are using WooCommerce). That file won’t be in use if you are using Disqus for comments, so will help to block spam also.

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    Rule expression:

    (http.request.uri.path contains “wp-comments-post.php”)

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