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1. douglaseye
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   hello: About 2 months ago, fed up with erratic log-ins at blogger.com, my newspaper switched to WordPress for its blogs at thegazz.com, an onine multimedia magazine. We are now getting spammed mercilessly by porn and gambling spammers to old posts in our comments, even though a user name and password is required to post a comment and I flag posts as spam. I returned from the holidays to find at least 100 such spams in old blog comments. I am now looking askance at WordPress and wondering if I made an error in using it for a newspaper site's blogs. Any thoughts? I am the editor of the magazine and did not set up the blogs -- one of our techies did -- so I can't talk in code. Any help appreciated

   Douglas Imbrogno | editor | thegazz.com

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Plugins:

   Install and activate Akismet -or- Spam Karma 2.
   Then install and activate Bad Behavior.

   http://akismet.com/
   http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
   http://homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/

   For those who struggle with the Akismet
   directions: http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

3. skepticblogs
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I agree with HandySolo.

   Bad Behavior will stop 80-90% of all porn spam. For the rest, Spam Karma will fix it.

   On my WPMU site both plug-ins are standard, and probably they are elsewhere.

4. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Trackback spam unfortunately will bypass the u/name and p/w needed to post. The only hope is the spam stopper plugins.

5. cageyjames
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   vkaryl,

   The plugin trackback validator fixes the trackback spam problem.

6. jbbrwcky
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I'd say Spam Karma 2 is the solution. I had the same problem, with upwards of 1000 porn (and illegal medicine) spams, trackbacks etc., for two separate blogs. SK2 really sorted it all out. They'll eventually get tired of it.

7. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Bad Behavior + Akismet is definitely the way to go. BB will stop 90% of it instantly, and Akismet will catch the rest.

8. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   cageyjames, spam karma 2 already does what that plugin does, and much more.

9. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Heh. I use the good combo. I so far don't need anything else, cageyjames....

10. cageyjames
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Thats fine, I use Akismet and with Trackback Validator it works great (though Akismet seems to catch most issues).

    SK2 just isn't my style.

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