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1. dgrip
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   We have a WordPress-created "News Blog" that sits on our church's external web site. Since Christmas Eve day, we have had dozens of spam posts per day sent to the News Blog. All of the spam has been Comment Posts that are posted onto same blog entry in our News Blog. Is there some way to prevent comment posts being received from this IP address? They use different email addresses and associated URLs, but the IP address always seems to be the same.

   Thanks in advance.

2. alism
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can use Admin > Settings > Discussion, and just drop the IP address into the comment blacklist field and it'll always get put into your spam queue.

   Or, if you don't want the spammer to even get that far, add something like the following to the very top of your .htaccess file:

   order allow,deny
   deny from X.X.X.X
   allow from all

   ...where X.X.X.X is the IP address. I'm sure there are plugins that'll do this type of thing too if you're not comfortable messing around with the htaccess file.

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