barrytimm

Except that comment spammers do not seem to be counted by Honeypot on your dashboard, correct? (I have well over 1500 comment spans from a single IP in Sweden, and Honeypot shows “0” spam on my site, despite me adding the honeypot link to the same page accessed by the spammer.)

http:BL seems to be doing nothing for me. I’m sure it’s something I’m doing wrong somewhere, but neither the honeypot forums or plugin forums seem to respond to the question, and I’ve read all I can find on installation/configuration.

I removed http:BL and installed “Bad Behavior” and Bad Behavior Log Reader in its place, and now finally see actual results in blovking the comment spammer.

Check the “Bad Behavior” stats right at the very bottom of my blog pages…(all from the SAME comment spammer!)

https://www.motodyn.com/blogs/bikes/arctic-circle-motorcycle-trip-2008/what-are-you-nucking-futs/

I’ve installed the same plug-in, but it does not seem to be blocking anything. I have received hundreds of spam comments from the same IP in Sweden, and though Akismet is categorizing the spam as….spam, I ws hoping that http:BL would be actually blocking the IP.

In the end, instead of having to review and delete the hundreds of spam messages, I blocked the spammer via .htaccess, and the spam has stopped.

Is this not what http:BL plug-in should be doing automatically? I’ve reviewed the very scarce documention from the plugin and am unsure if I have configured it correctly, or even if the plugin IS meant to actually block the spammer, so would appreciate any advice on what the plugin is meant to actually accomplish.

This is what I’ve implemented:

1. Signed-up at Honeypot for an account
2. Installed a Honeypot on my hosted WordPress blog
3. Added the honeypot links to various pages on my blog
4. Created a subdomain and donated the subdomain as a public site via the MX redirection records.
5. Installed the http:BL WordPress plugin and configured the API key and other parms.
6. Checked that the Honeypot implemention status was good, and everything says it’s working.

But…am now getting loads more spam comments, and no way to see what http:BL is doing for me (if anything). Honeypot says I have zero spam…when I have hundreds of comment spam.

Help!

I tried this all…none of it worked until I used FTP to delete all the CACHE files in my /WP-CONTENT/ directory.

As soon as I deleted the cache, I was presented the admin login screen which had been blank, and was able to login, and my site is also back up.

It may have been corruption from me not deactivating the plug-ins prior to my last upgrade….lesson learned!

NOW, to re-install the plugs which I’d also deleted.