Wordpress and comment spam
Nov 30th, 2006 by jim
Wordpress really has a problem with comment spam.
There seems no way to stop it. Shutting off comments would seem to be the obvious solution, but seems not to be effective at stopping the spam.
I am new to the admin functions, so I may not have shut off comments successfully. On the other hand, it seems spammers can submit spam regardless of setting.
My email box is completely wiped out by notifications from Wordpress that I have comments to moderate–despite my not choosing to accept any comments.
Wordpress has a vibrant community writing add-ons, and has many good features.
But it would be nice if it dealt better with spam.