By the way, I’ve deactivated all of the spam plugins I was using and I’m relying on just the new measures built-in to WordPress 1.5. So far it’s been going very well.
Hmm… with my mass delete system I guess I could easily try this out as well, and not have that much trouble cleaning up any infestations if they occur.
Latest nightly Matt? I’m on 1.5(1/6) and don’t have the guts. I’m not interested in cleaning spam up when it get’s here…I don’t want it period Which is why Kitten is my flavour of the month right now.
It’s seems like your site is a little broken. Every tab at the top of your page (except for Archives) goes to the same page. All I get is a list of your recent blog entries. Is this just me?
It’s seems like your site is a little broken. Every tab at the top of your page (except for Archives) goes to the same page. All I get is a list of your recent blog entries. Is this just me?
I’m seeing the same thing, seems like a problem with the .htaccess rules but then again it could be anything, I’m sure that Matt will have it fixed up in a gif.
The new built-in spam moderator indeed works flawlessly so far. I have never had spam plugins installed, since few latest wp build, *all* spams are caught into moderation. Nicely done.
Catching spam in moderation still doesn’t solve the problem. Then you have to manually delete all of the spam it does catch and let me tell you, since there’s no option to select multiple comments to delete AT THE SAME TIME, deleting spam can be more than a little tedious. I was helping a friend implement the Trencaspammer plug-in and to delete over 3,000 comment spams by hand. :-/ Would have been much easier to have a “select all” option and then delete that way. My hand was cramping up by the time the time I was done!
The only spam prevention I have in place right now is automatic moderation on entries older than one week. That works better than Spam Karma and Spaminator combined…
Greg, in 1.2 you can “mass edit” comments, and search for IP/URI/content to handle cleanup. On 1.5 (CVS) there are now two Spam Words lists… one sends a comment to moderation, the other deletes it. You’d want to put your really obvious spam ones in the delete one, and the less obvious ones in the moderate one.
My blog is still powered by beta (nightly) version of 1.1 with just 1 blacklist plugin. And I don’t have big probs with spam as people seems to have… Hmm… Good ol’ WP ^_^
Can’t wait for 1.5 – thanks for getting this “bait” out there for spam bots to attempt to hit you. Anyone spammed using the 1.5 prerelease will only help the final customers avoid frustration! -kj-
TEASE!
Hmm… with my mass delete system I guess I could easily try this out as well, and not have that much trouble cleaning up any infestations if they occur.
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Latest nightly Matt? I’m on 1.5(1/6) and don’t have the guts. I’m not interested in cleaning spam up when it get’s here…I don’t want it period
Which is why Kitten is my flavour of the month right now.
Care to give us a hint as to what those measures might be?
Definitely a reason to switch back to WP
I would like to know what measures you have used too. Just the common words list?
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It’s seems like your site is a little broken. Every tab at the top of your page (except for Archives) goes to the same page. All I get is a list of your recent blog entries. Is this just me?
I’m seeing the same thing, seems like a problem with the .htaccess rules but then again it could be anything, I’m sure that Matt will have it fixed up in a gif.
The new built-in spam moderator indeed works flawlessly so far. I have never had spam plugins installed, since few latest wp build, *all* spams are caught into moderation. Nicely done.
I’m with Joshua. I’ve never installed a spam filter plugin. The only active plugin I have active is “wpPaginate”.
Yeah, I’m seeing the same thing….
I want
That should’ve been: I want WP 1.5 *sad smiley*
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Catching spam in moderation still doesn’t solve the problem. Then you have to manually delete all of the spam it does catch and let me tell you, since there’s no option to select multiple comments to delete AT THE SAME TIME, deleting spam can be more than a little tedious. I was helping a friend implement the Trencaspammer plug-in and to delete over 3,000 comment spams by hand. :-/ Would have been much easier to have a “select all” option and then delete that way. My hand was cramping up by the time the time I was done!
The only spam prevention I have in place right now is automatic moderation on entries older than one week. That works better than Spam Karma and Spaminator combined…
1.2 has mass-delete, and 1.5 has a “straight to deletion” option for keywords.
Call me stupid, but I didnt see any mass deletion option in 1.2 or a straight to delete option for keywords in 1.5
Anyways, I find the Comment Spam Words list does the trick 99/100, which is always nice to know
Greg, in 1.2 you can “mass edit” comments, and search for IP/URI/content to handle cleanup. On 1.5 (CVS) there are now two Spam Words lists… one sends a comment to moderation, the other deletes it. You’d want to put your really obvious spam ones in the delete one, and the less obvious ones in the moderate one.
My blog is still powered by beta (nightly) version of 1.1 with just 1 blacklist plugin. And I don’t have big probs with spam as people seems to have… Hmm… Good ol’ WP ^_^
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That’s very exciting to hear. Even with a bunch of keywords and a plugin on my WP 1.2, I’m still getting spam (and humans rarely ever read my blog!)
Looks like I’m gonna have to switch to version 1.5. I only wish it wasn’t beta still
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Can’t wait for 1.5 – thanks for getting this “bait” out there for spam bots to attempt to hit you. Anyone spammed using the 1.5 prerelease will only help the final customers avoid frustration! -kj-