Comment Spam
Nasty, nasty stuff. Opeed up the site today and found that two comments had been added to every entry linking to a couple of online poker places.
Thus, I resigned myself to the fact that this site is no longer safe from the comment spammers and decided to set up the proper protections. The procedure went as follows:
- Visit WordPress site, find the WP-Blacklist plugin
- Visit Fahim Farook’s site, download latest version
- Install plugin, populating blacklist with Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse
- Use the plugin’s search feature to find all the comments that should have been prevented, select all, delete.
All in all, it took about five minutes, tops. I like WordPress and the WP community.
