Receiving tons of spam, but shouldn’t

  • I have the option “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” turned on yet I still receive about 40 spam comments a day that I have to moderate. They all have a different username, which links to different sites. But if I look in my users, I don’t have any.

    I looked to see about installing Akismet, but I can’t figure out how. It is offered for download, but it doesn’t say how to get a key if you are using WordPress on your own server for a personal, non-commercial blog.

    I would greatly appreciate anyone with any ideas about what to check for or how to block this to post some replies. This is really bugging me. Thanks!

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  • First, install BadBehavior. Second, install SpamKarma 2. Relevant links:

    https://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/
    https://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

    Thread Starter slapyo

    (@slapyo)

    OK thanks. I searched the forums and couldn’t find a post related to mine, but then I should have looked at the threads in this forum before posting. I found a few like mine and suggested the same thing.

    However, isn’t this a bug in the WordPress code? I mean the bots are posting comments, even though they shouldn’t be able to right?

    For Akismet, just sign up at https://www.wordpress.com. Don’t have to use it (though it could be useful as a more private blog if you wanted) and you also get to see the latest code.

    And the bots ? They bypass normal controls which isn’t so much a bug as the way systems are constructed. The links vkaryl has are sound though.

    Thread Starter slapyo

    (@slapyo)

    Ok thanks. I was under the impression that the key given was for the WordPress.com domain only.

    Have to enter a caveat here: a wordpress.com blog is anything but private. There doesn’t seem to be any way to prevent your posts from showing on the “latest posts” page no matter how you tweak it, among other not-private stuff. For instance, first thing I did once “on” there was disable pings etc. Posts still show up on the “latest posts” blocks…. You CAN mark every post “private” – however, I didn’t notice that preventing them showing either. That was several months back though, perhaps they’ve fixed that since.

    I didn’t spend much time with the one I have there (which was started as a reaction to the “I can’t make my .com blog behave” posts here) because of that: I do NOT want everyone and his wife’s nephew’s sister-in-law’s dog’s latest puppy accessing my blog. Unlike many, I don’t have any need to “exhibit” my blogs to the world….

    Thread Starter slapyo

    (@slapyo)

    ?? what’s that have to do with my question?

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