TG’s code not working?

  • thebirdwoman

    (@thebirdwoman)


    20 years ago

    Hi folks,
    I’m getting the problem of spammers posting comments on entries that I haven’t even written yet. I’ve deleted the future comments that are there at the moment, and I wanted to install TG’s code to stop it happening again (as described here: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/). However, when I altered the wp-comments-post.php file and uploaded it, it stopped working. It just gives a blank page when you try to post a comment.
    Anybody else have a similar problem?
    Cheers.

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  • carthik

    (@carthik)

    Check if you have an extra blank space/line before the <?php at the top or after the ?> at the end in the file you edited.
    If you edited the file using Cpanel’s editor, then you will have a blank line at the end. Use wordpad instead.

    Thread Starter thebirdwoman

    (@thebirdwoman)

    I did use WordPad, but there may well have been a blank space. I’ll check. Thanks!

    Thread Starter thebirdwoman

    (@thebirdwoman)

    Hmm, just went back into wordpad and took the blank spaces out, and it’s still doing the same thing.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Did you go into your database and delete the spam comments that were all ready there? https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/#imm TG’s code only stops bots from adding spam comments to non existent posts, it doesn’t disable that spam that has all ready been added.

    Thread Starter thebirdwoman

    (@thebirdwoman)

    Yes, I already did that, then I thought I’d better add TG’s code to stop them from doing it again…
    Bloody spammers.

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