Stop Comment Spam from Robots

Posted on August 5, 2007
Filed Under WordPress Spam |

As your posts are open for leaving comments, one or more spam crawler robots will soon find your site and crawl each of your posts. What they will do is to leave irrelevant stuff in comments, such as XXX links. And they’ll come back again and again.

How to stop them? Easy. They are only robots anyway. Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin will do. It took me no time to download, install, and activate this plugin. Now as you see in my posts, the Leave Comment area has something new like:

Anti-spam word: (Required)*
To prove you’re a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture.

An image of word shows, anyone has to enter this word in the box in order to comment. The list of words can be customized too. Check Peter’s download page to find out more options for customization.

This plugin works for robot spams only. It cannot stop a person to to leave spam comments on your site. It’s harder to fight people.

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