Do you want to allow users to report inappropriate comments in WordPress? WordPress doesn’t have a built-in reporting function in its comment system. This can make removing offensive, rude, or hurtful comments from your website difficult. That said, there is an easy way to enable… Read More »
Do you want to remove the website URL field from your WordPress comment form? Many bots and spammers use this field to get backlinks to their sites. By removing the ‘Website’ field, you can immediately make your site less attractive to spammers. In this article,… Read More »
Are you getting tired of dealing with comment spam on your WordPress blog? You are not alone. Spam comments are a huge problem for any website once you start getting steady traffic. In this article, we will share the best WordPress comment spam plugins and… Read More »
By default WordPress automatically adds a nofollow tag to all links in the comments. Recently one of our readers asked if it was possible to remove the nofollow from WordPress comments? In this article, we will show you how to remove nofollow from WordPress comment… Read More »
Have you ever thought about what makes a good blog comment? Want to know of a sure-fire way to bypass the spam comment filter in WordPress? In this article, we will show you how to write a good blog comment and bypass the spam filter… Read More »
A growing site comes with new challenges and one of them is comment spam. Thankfully, there are plenty of solutions to effectively fight comment spam. For example, using Akismet you can effectively reduce comment spam. You can also use CAPTCHA to block spamming bots. In… Read More »
Spam comments are a big pain in the ***. To prevent spam comments, bloggers end up taking strict measures such as requiring people to register or have everyone enter a captcha before submitting a comment. Spam prevention controls such as captchas, math quiz, and registration… Read More »
One of the issues we started noticing on our site was a group of spammers were commenting using our registered user’s username and email. It’s fairly easy to find both specially if a person has exchanged emails with you. This allowed a random user to… Read More »
Once you have installed WordPress, you will see there is one default post, one default comment, but surprisingly a plugin that comes pre-installed. This famous WordPress plugin is known as Akismet. It is not activated by default, and even to activate it, you have to take extra steps. In this article we will provide everything you need to know about Akismet from how to installing it to why you need it.