Thanks for the link. It explained some things. However, I am still wondering if there was more detials to my original questions.
1. How does WordPress know to make these awaiting moderation? I set it so that you have to enter email and name to comment so how does WordPress know to flag this comment as needing moderation?
2. What happens when you select SPAM in the moderation page. I looks like it flags it. Does WordPress do any other back end safe guards to block future spams by this individual?
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1 – A real person didn’t comment. It was an automatic script and it doesn’t do the name/email thing – it goes straight for another area of the code. That’s why you need protection.
2 – The post is stored in the database so it can be later used as a reference point. It takes up hardly any space though, so you have no worries.
The WP code itself has some protection, but you have a range of other plugins (I use Spam-Karma and it is excellent) that you can use to help WP out too.
Thanks for the reply. It makes more sense now. Guess what, looks like my blog is being targetted. 5 more comments all using different IP addresses. So this is a script for sure now.
So if I flag it as spam, it stores it for refernce later. But these comments are pretty long. It must have over 50 links in the body field. Is there anything I can do to stop this or do I have to manually delete these flags that WP has detected?
hmmm, anyone have a easy method to deal with these spammers? any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Spam-Karma
It’s caught 901 spams to my blog in the last couple of weeks.
Set it up and pretty much forget it.
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
And please don’t think they are targetting you – they are after any and every blog and it comes in attack waves, so when it slows / stops, don’t remove any protection.
hey, thanks for the links. that helped a lot. Just installed Spam Karma and it looks pretty powerful.
ok, now can anyone provide a few links to learn in detail what trackbacks and pingbacks are. i am still lost and haven’t been able to find anything using the search function here. I am pretty new at this and I can’t seem to get trackbacks to show up on my blog. I am probably way off base here but any help (dummies tutorial perhaps) would be greatly appreciated.
Always study the great Oracle called Codex (before posting)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging
@mealtog – I don’t think the latest version of SK is ready for prime time, at least that’s what I’ve come across recently. So be sure to test things out by posting a comment of your own to see if the comment actually makes it to the page. Don’t make it spammy, just a regular comment is all you need.
I had this happen to me last week when I discovered (with macmanx’s help) that the new SK was not ready and being written for WP 1.5.1 — I’m currently running 1.5
doh! i see, when u mean it’s not ready, do you mean normal comments were being flagged as spam? or was it deleted? Maybe i should crank the security level from normal to more lenient?
I didn’t notice it until I was replying to someone via posting a comment on my blog. That comment didn’t show up at all, nor was it marked as spam, nor did it go to moderation. Just went off into cyberspace somewhere. 🙂 So I’ve deactivated it and am waiting on the upgrade.
I would advise you not to crank up the security level as I’ve heard that the “normal” setting is quite sufficient and bumping it up may cause other undesired things. Not sure what those things are exactly, and I’m not saying SK is doing anything wrong. But like you said it’s a very powerful tool and normal seems to be more than enough.
Maybe others here can comment on this last point.
Just to reiterate, after reading your post, I was thinking about moving the security level down. Not moving it up.
Oh yes, I see that now. I was in a hurry. Sorry. 🙂
