My Wordpress Gallery is being Spammed - Help

jollyjack said:
Apart from having people register to comment on my gallery, is there anyway to stop spammers from entering buy these pills post on wordpress??
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Couple of options. Askimet is pretty good at eliminating spam and is included, but not activated, in wordpress installs.

You can also set wordpress to require that one comment must be approved for each user before they can post. It's not quite registration but serves the same purpose

Quick addition as I forgot about it, I also run something called "bad behaviour" on one of my blogs, I had a time where I was getting in excess of 1000 spams per day on one post, this combination eliminated the lot
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
 
Squawk said:
Couple of options. Askimet is pretty good at eliminating spam and is included, but not activated, in wordpress installs.

You can also set wordpress to require that one comment must be approved for each user before they can post. It's not quite registration but serves the same purpose
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Thanks James, they have posted at least 20 times in last 24 hours, so will apply these measures now
 
I hate the buggers, the way it went for me was a single comment on one post, evidently a test, which I deleted when I noticed it. That single post then got bombarded, absolutely bonkers, so I enabled askimet and logged well over 2000 spam comments in a couple of days. Although askimet was catching them all at the time I figured an extra level of protection was required, hence finding bad behaviour.

The only caveat with bad behaviour is that by default it puts a little bit of text in the footer of your blog, I considered that a fair price for the benefits. All it says is

"Bad Behavior has blocked 33 access attempts in the last 7 days.", clearly changed for the number of attempts it has actually encountered.
 
+1 for Akismet
 
If the spam is coming from the same location (IP or host) then you could modify your .htaccess file to keep them away completely.
 
dlh said:
If the spam is coming from the same location (IP or host) then you could modify your .htaccess file to keep them away completely.
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Fair point, but it depends on having access to the file. The beauty of Askimet is it's an add-on to Wordpress - just download and install and away you go.
Much more user friendly IMHO. Editing files like .htaccess is risky unless you know what you're doing.

Cheers


Mark
 
jollyjack said:
Apart from having people register to comment on my gallery, is there anyway to stop spammers from entering buy these pills post on wordpress??
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;)
 
Oh yeah :) My bad.

Does your server let you use htaccess files? (Providing you are using Apache)

Try this that I wrote a while ago, it blocks hosts based on bad domains and IP addresses, it works very well and I haven't heard of complaints from legitimate users who cannot access the site.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gmz0zjyyjzm

Just call this .htaccess and upload to your root directory, and change these lines:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer ".*(\.domain\.co\.uk).*" GoodHost
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" GoodHost
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer ".*(www\.domain\.co\.uk).*" GoodHost

So that your own domain is in.
 
I use nospamnx I think the plugin is called

blocked around 2000 spam comments since I installed it a few months back, gets my vote
 
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