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1. outphasen
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   How can I ban certain IPs from posting comments on my wordpress? Which files do I need to edit.
   Thanks

2. TechGnome
   Moderator
   Posted 8 years ago #

   In the wiki.... try this link: http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WPHacks
   That's the WPHacks section of the wiki. There's an entry for the "WP Blacklist Comment SPAM Filteration" hack (it's in the section marked "Comments" ... just follow the directions. It takes a little work settig up, but is worth it.
   TG

3. Matt Mullenweg
   Troublemaker
   Posted 8 years ago #

   You can put IP addresses in the comment moderation keys field in 1.2, you don't need any hacks.

4. Sphyr
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Does the comment moderation field work for partial i.p. addresses? I have a kid on dialup hassling me - will moderation work if I just list the 1st two octets?

5. Korgan
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   You can put partial IP addresses in the blacklist yes. Just put the 000.000. chunk in there. The blacklist will block any comments that match.

6. uhoh
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   is it merely mere or is the wiki not accessible??

7. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   It's a bit flakey at times, yes.....

8. matthijs
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hi,
   I can't find the ip ban option neither...
   (us wp1.2)
   got mass spammed a few times. a comment on every post about some casino shit!!!
   So any tips are welcome!
   Matthijs

9. lawtai
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I say use wp-blacklist 2.5
   http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/10/05/wpblacklist-25-released/

10. Hopper
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    IP-based blocking won't do a bit of good -- at leastr for spam. I watched a spammer post about 150 comments on an MT blog using some 20 or 30 different IP addresses spanning the globe.
    It's not effective, and not worth your time pursuing an IP-based solution. WP-blacklist, along with one or two of the other excellent WP spam blocking plugins, is all you really need.

11. James
    Happiness Engineer
    Posted 7 years ago #

    And, thanks to IP spoofing, you could wind up blocking future legitimate users.

12. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 7 years ago #

    Use a nice 403 :)

13. sycho
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    I installed the latest version of the WPblacklist (2.5) and the installation went well - I thought. But now when I click the Blacklist Configuration link in the plugins area, all I get is this:

    Warning: main(ABSPATHwp-includes/streams.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/web/web1109/blog/wp-includes/wp-l10n.php on line 2
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required "ABSPATHwp-includes/streams.php" (include_path=".:") in /usr/home/web/web1109/blog/wp-includes/wp-l10n.php on line 2

    I don't know what to do, I don't know what went wrong. As far as I can conclude, I'm missing a file that wasn't amongs the downloaded files.

    Does anyone have a solution to my problem? I really need this plugin because texasholdempoker is so bloddy annoying.

14. somefool
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    id recommend kittens spaminator along with spam words, but theres also spam karma and http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/

15. sycho
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    Thank you, that does the trick without problems.

    Now come and get me nasty spam, then we'll see who wins!

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