New Comment Spam Tools

I’ve added a couple tools to my comment spam toolkit: Scott Buchanan’s plugin that disallows direct access to wp-trackback.php, and Chris J. Davis’s Spam Nuker to pull any false positive comments out of the database.

I’m still trying to figure out if marking a comment as spam pushes WordPress to grab the relevant data [IP and URL, mainly] and stuff them in the moderation queue greylist. If not, I want to see if I can hack on Kitten’s SpamWords some and make it do that for me, because frankly, I like the idea of keeping the spam in the database so that you have a knowledgebase for what’s spam and what’s ham.

Posted March 21st, 2005 in WordPress by Geof F. Morris.

One comment:

  1. The Indiana Jones School of Management:

    TrackBack Spam Blocker Updated

    On a lark, I found that Scott Buchanan’s TrackBack Spam Blocker has been updated to version 1.1.0. I’ve been using it for some time, and it’s been beneficial.

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