Question - wordpress

romes

romes

David
Hi, as many of you know I love to use wordpress for almost everything. But, I am kind of embarrassed as I can not figure out how to stop people from posting on my site if their not registered. I've enabled a feature that stops that but someone I keep getting spammed by bots posting useless crap on the blog.

I've checked and can't figure this out. I have dealt with enough spam to know to enable "Approve all comments" option on the blog. I tried to post as a non member and I can't yet the bots can which is annoying me.

Any ideas?
 
I added one...The problem is their able to post as a non member. Even with captcha, I don't want that.
 
Thanks, I'll try some of these. Also, the first option I believe requires you pay now? Not sure, I installed it but didn't go through with it for a reason I can not remember. I used it a few months ago though with no problem.

But again, I'll give these a try. Thanks man!
 
Since you've been working with WordPress since a longtime, I'll assume that the Askimet plugin is activated and running well.

You may use a combination of tools and plugins to get rid of bots spamming your site(s). Install a trusted Captcha on your WordPress site. You may even try installing a a plug-in named "Bad Behavior", it should help you a great deal with stopping spams.

Alternatively, you may use Facebook Comments as it is rare to get spammed by someone on Facebook.
 
I thought so too HostLeet, but their process in which you sign up confused me a bit as before they had a link to the free sign up. Right now they all three plans together so I thought you had to pay.

But, it is still free to use.
 
Sorry for double post, but I got another problem now. I am trying to enable subscriptions on my blog and I can not find it anywhere. I Googled it and found the wordpress site link with the info but when I do what it says the info that should be there on my admin panel is not!

My blog doesn't have a subscription feature. Is this feature limited to blogs connected to wordpress.com? Mine is a self hosted blog so that might be the problem but not sure.
 
romes said:
Sorry for double post, but I got another problem now. I am trying to enable subscriptions on my blog and I can not find it anywhere. I Googled it and found the wordpress site link with the info but when I do what it says the info that should be there on my admin panel is not!

My blog doesn't have a subscription feature. Is this feature limited to blogs connected to wordpress.com? Mine is a self hosted blog so that might be the problem but not sure.
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What kind of subscriptions you want enabled?
 
So that my readers are able to get updates when a new article has been posted. A friend of mine told me about Suscribe2 so am using that as of right now. Still testing it and stuff but it seems to function very well so I might use this instead of the wordpress version (which I still can't find)
 
romes said:
So that my readers are able to get updates when a new article has been posted. A friend of mine told me about Suscribe2 so am using that as of right now. Still testing it and stuff but it seems to function very well so I might use this instead of the wordpress version (which I still can't find)
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All Wordpress blogs, including your self-hosted blog, has a "subscription" feature. It is really just an RSS feed, and is found by default at http://yourdomain.com/feed

If your theme doesn't include an RSS symbol already, there are plugins ... just look for "subscribe" in Add New Plugin and you'll see quite a few.

Also, another tip to reduce spam postings. I have started using Disqus commenting plug in, and it seems more effective than Askimet. While Askimet had impressive stats in blocking comment spam, I still had dozens. I rarely get them now using Disqus (and people can use OpenID, Facebook, Google or other identities when they post).
 
In your admin panel, you will come across an option called 'anyone can comment on this article' uncheck that and hopefully the comments should stop.
 
Askimet is good enough to anti spam, authentication before posting is also good method to reduce spam comments.
 
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