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How to block spam comments on my blog?

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  • January 11, 2013 at 9:37 am #11226
    Guillermina
    Member

    Hello again ... Somebody can help me, I need to block the spam comments that comes to my site's blog.
    How do I do? ..... Any plugin recommended for this?

    January 11, 2013 at 9:44 am #11230
    Susan
    Moderator

    Askimet

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

    January 11, 2013 at 9:45 am #11232
    Elizabeth Crane
    Member

    There are a few plugins for this but I like to use Comment Luv. The free version should work but their premium one is even more awesome.

    Eliz

    Ranking Edge

    January 11, 2013 at 11:41 am #11269
    Guillermina
    Member

    Susan, akismet have to pay?? There are some free??

    January 11, 2013 at 11:48 am #11272
    giraffeweb
    Participant

    Yes there are fees with askimet if it is used for business but free for a personal blog. I have several legacy accounts from when it was free and it is working wonderfully with those.

    Judy

    January 11, 2013 at 12:34 pm #11289
    Susan
    Moderator

    As Judy indicated, it's free for a personal blog, and is what I use for my own blog.

    January 11, 2013 at 1:34 pm #11304
    Guillermina
    Member

    thanks, apparently had already acquired the API key, but the person who managed the site was ... and are getting many spam comments: (

    January 11, 2013 at 11:39 pm #11406
    Bill Murray
    Member

    @Guillermina - There's a difference between getting a spam comment and identifying a comment as spam. Akismet helps to do the latter - that is, it helps to identify a comment as spam. That makes it easy to confirm a group of comments is all spam and to delete them in bulk (or let Akismet auto-delete them). Akismet can't stop someone (a robot or a live person) from making a spam comment.

    Other tools help to block a spammer from making a comment, but that might discourage real commenters. The more blocks you put up, the fewer real comments you'll get. One popular plugin for blocking spam is Spam Free WordPress.

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