Spam in 'comments' box

  • I’ve got a site that I’ve parked for now, so don’t really want to pay Akismet just yet to protect it. Like most of us, I’m being hit by spam and phising attacks in the comments box. I’ve duly gone through all the pages and unchecked ‘allow comments’ assuming that this would prevent the issue. Seemingly not. Admittedly it’s only the American phisers now who seem to be defying this (thankyou Kansas City) the eastern european and Africans seem to have stopped, but for now I’m just blocking IP’s on wordfence. Surely by not making the comments box active this should achieve it? Is there anyway round this? It’s just nuisance value really of getting email prompts to have to go an edit each time a phising attack gets launched. Do spammers run out of IP addresses eventually? or can they generate as many as quickly as I block them?

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  • Hello Melpomene,

    You can get akismet under a free account where you are not required to pay anything.

    https://akismet.com/plans/

    Click free, and drop the price down to $0. Once installed you can then set it to automatically delete spam so you never see it.

    hope that helps!

    Thread Starter Melpomene

    (@melpomene)

    Thanks Evan,

    Strictly speaking its a commercial site, (I should have made that clear really) even though it’s in hibernation, but I’m sure if I asked Akismet to protect it they’d realise it’s a dot.com.

    I wouldn’t want to do something dishonest like that really as I don’t think we can take the high moral ground against the abusers if we start doing things like that. Admittedly $5 isn’t much and there are bound to be those who simply say pay it and stop being so tight fisted, (I understand that) but there’s also this silly thing gnawing away at me that says why pay anything for something that it isn’t actually active (so to speak) for however I look at it, it’s dead money for about 15 months. There’s also this bit of me that thinks that should be a solution in WordPress (like disabling comments) but clearly that doesn’t work.

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