Paint Guy

Thanks James, but I am so confused.
There are so many options but I don’t know what I need. I don’t even understand what I need to properly build an email userbase. Should I use a popup like Pippity or a banner like “Hellobar” or Google or Subscribe2.

I want something simple that works but it all seems so complicated. I currently have no traffic to my site and want to fix that.

Please help!

Thanks to both of you. I will install one of these and give them a try.

Yes, you can add full/part of the keywords used by such spammers in the text box provided for that. That will block not only him/her but all others using such keywords.

Ok, I added specific spam words to “Comments Blacklist” and “Comments Moderation”. After doing this I just received 2 new spam comments with these keywords in them.

I’m just about ready to give up on WP and go back to my HTML site where I had no spam. Why is WP so useless at blocking spam?

Yes, you can add full/part of the keywords used by such spammers in the text box provided for that. That will block not only him/her but all others using such keywords.

Thanks, I will try that.

Yes, I thought of just adding their IP address to my “Comments Blacklist” but this spammer uses a different IP address for every comment so I don’t think that will work. (see below)

[Moderated. Please do not post copies od spam in the forums.]

I have received over 100 spams from this idiot in 2 days.
Are there any words or numbers in the comments below that I can use in my “Comments Blacklist” that will stop this?

OK. Thanks.

About this:

1) In the Comment Blacklist section of WP I added part of the spammers “who is” address. Will this step block this person from spamming me? https://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/

Have you activated Akismet yet?

No, Askimet is not a free service.

Thanks.

1) In the Comment Blacklist section of WP I added part of the spammers who is address. Will this step block this person from spamming me? https://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/

2) In the section on combatting spam I found this but I can’t find the following line of code anywhere.

<p>
<input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" />
</p>

Inform Users When Comments are Moderated
When people submit comments, they expect them to appear on your blog immediately. Implementing comment moderation and not telling people will almost certainly result in some people repeatedly submitting the same comment as they think it has disappeared. To prevent this from happening, and to avoid disgruntled and confused readers, inform people that their comment is under review by doing the following:

If you use popup comments, edit comments-popup.php and if you do not, edit comments.php.

Look for the following code:

<p>
<input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" />
</p>

Change that to the following, adding your own customization:

<p>
<blockquote>
Comment moderation is in use. Please do not submit your comment twice -- it will appear shortly.
</blockquote>
<input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" />
</p>

Thanks but I already know I have spam but that link doesn’t tell me how to deal with it. How come I have 71 new spam comments per day and how do I avoid this in the future?

I already moderate my comments but having to go through 71 comments per day and delete them is ridiculous!!

Anyone able to help me out with this?

Perhaps the image on the home page must be set to a featured image in the post? Look at that setting in the post screen. What theme are you using?

Thanks everyone for the help!

Actually WPyogi found the problem, for some reason the image needed to be set as a “Featured Image” this time, then it worked.

Strange that other posts I don’t set the image as a featured image and they still appear on the homepage fine.

Hmmm. If anyone can guess why the image needed to be a featured image when other times it doesn’t need to be I would love to know. ??

Hi, I would love to post my URL here but last time I did that I got all sorts of SPAM from who knows where.

Is there anything you could suggest I try to fix the problem of my image not showing up in my post. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks yes I will look more thoroughly into the dev’s tips, but what confuses me is that my site has no hits at all. If I am adding new posts and content then shouldn’t I be getting some traffic?

I tried to add an image to the gallery by opening up the page where I added the gallery code.. I see the existing images in there but I couldn’t understand how to add an image to the existing set.

Any help would be appreciated.

I tried to add an image by opening the page where I added my gallery code, but I couldn’t see a way to properly add the image. Any help would be appreciated.