WordPress Comments – and My ‘Comment Killer’ Plugin
If you use a WordPress blog, then you know that checking the comments is a huge deal – and needs to be done far too often for what is mostly spam.
What to do?
Awhile back for ActiveBlogging members, I wrote a plugin to kill comments dead – Dave’s Comment Killer for WordPress – but it’s not your typical comment plugin.
Why?
Because it lets you dump ALL comments!
WordPress has a real problem with comments. Even if you refuse to accept any via the WP settings, spammers can still blast them – and you still have to clean them out. For non-blog blogs it’s a pain.
My plugin lets you automatically dump ALL comments – silently – perfect for regular sites where commenting isn’t used (or needed).
And for sites like this one? I have a setting to detect links – more than ‘X’ links in a comment (which I can adjust in the plugin) and the comment disappears automatically.
Think about it – most spammers want something for their time, and that ’something’ is a link (or two, or fifty). With this plugin, comments with huge numbers of links are deleted automatically.
And as a final option, I can get an email every time a real comment makes it past the filter – allowing me to approve good ones ASAP.
Take a peek at Dave’s Comment Killer for WordPress – if you need a new way to kill comment spam on WordPress for ‘non-blog’ blogs, this will do a treat for you.
