Title: NerdTools Comment Filter
Author: NerdKey
Published: <strong>August 12, 2014</strong>
Last modified: August 23, 2014

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# NerdTools Comment Filter

 By [NerdKey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ko159/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nerdtools-comment-filter.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nerdtools-comment-filter/)

## Description

Created to work alongside the NerdTools Bad Bots Spam Reporter & Spam Defender plugins,
this plugin will read all comments posted to detect common spam elements and proceed
to mark the comment as “spam” automatically if a match is found.

More information can be found at http://www.nerdtools.co.uk/badbots/

## Installation

 1. Upload `nerdtools_comment_filter.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Head to ‘Settings’ then ‘NT Comment Filter’ and check ‘Enable Comment Filtering’
    and press ‘Save Changes’
 4. That’s it!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“NerdTools Comment Filter” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ NerdKey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ko159/)

[Translate “NerdTools Comment Filter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nerdtools-comment-filter/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/nerdtools-comment-filter/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/nerdtools-comment-filter/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/nerdtools-comment-filter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

#### 1.1

 * Minor changes to readme.txt
 * Core code improvements
 * Added settings page

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 * Tags
 * [bad](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bad/)[bot](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bot/)
   [defender](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/defender/)[spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nerdtools-comment-filter/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ NerdKey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ko159/)

## Support

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