Tag Archives: Spam

How To Block Spams In WordPress By Challenging Only Bots Not Humans ?

Earlier we discussed about Keypic’s WordPress Plugin that allows you to block spam bots in most of the WordPress forms (without using captchas) like login, register, comment and even other custom forms and plugin like Contact Form 7. Now this article. Now this tutorial is about a plugin that lets you block spam bots from WordPress comments form without using any type of CAPTCHAS, math questions, passwords etc. It kills spam-bots and leaves humans standing. It does spam blocking that stops spam-bots dead in their tracks.

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Enhance & Encourage Conversation, Build Readers Community, Get More Comments And Pageviews In WordPress

You can encourage conversation, build strong reader community, get more comments and boost page views by IntenseDebate in your WordPress website. IntenseDebate is powerful, popular with more than four lakhs downloads and yet its free. You can download it from WordPress Plugin Repository.

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Captcha Garb, Add New Stylish Puzzles Instead Of Old Text Captchas In WordPress

Captcha Grab is the new stylish comment spam blocker that makes your visitor solve the puzzle images. It includes 58 puzzle images that get displayed randomly and you can upload your own.

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Automatically Remove Spam User Registration In WordPress. Also Delete Unused User Accounts

Now you can automatically delete spam user registrations and inactive unused user accounts from your WordPress site. You can also block the annoying e-mail to administrator’s inbox after new registrations.

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How To Protect Your WordPress Site Email Addresses From Email Harvesting Robots ?

Here is an easy way for protecting your WordPress site’s email addresses from email-harvesting robots by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.

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Allow WordPress Commenters To Select Comment Avatar Manually Or Use Custom Avatars Stored In Your Website

Some people don’t use Gravatar, some don’t use Twitter and there are some who don’t use Facebook also and when they leave comment on your blog they leave a mystery man image (or your site’s default avatar) in their comment which sometimes does’t look nice. But you can allow them to choose their comment avatars manually by selecting a avatar from their social profile, email or choosing it from a list of your site’s custom avatars. I know about few plugins that allows you to do so.

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How To Stop Spam Robot Registration On Your WordPress Site ?

You might have spend a lot time chasing spammers and deleting automated posts posted automated software. Now you can stop spam bots registering on your WordPress site, here is an easy and powerful plugin that lets you modify registration link of your WordPress site which stops WP spam bot registrations. Of course this plugin is not the ultimate spam-bot protection but it is a great additional protection against them.

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WordPres Spam Words And Moderation

Here are words widely used in spam comments. Adding them to your moderation list protects your site from spam trackback and comments. Just copy-paste this list in your wp-admin/options-discussions.php  (if using WordPress)

What is Moderation ? WordPress Comment moderation allows you to prevent comments to appear on your webiste before your approval. It can be useful for addressing Spam Comment.

How Moderation Works ? A new comment goes through many WordPress tests before appearing below your post. If comment fails one of the test conducted by WordPress then it goes to spam list, where you can approve or trash that particular comment. That’s how comment moderation works.

Akismet is a better option available for WordPress users for blocking Spam Comments.

Following is spam word list (released by WordPress) to add in your WordPress wp-admin/options-discussions.php

-online
4u
adipex
advicer
baccarrat
blackjack
bllogspot
booker
byob
car-rental-e-site
car-rentals-e-site
carisoprodol
casino
casinos
chatroom
cialis
coolcoolhu
coolhu
credit-card-debt
credit-report-4u
cwas
cyclen
cyclobenzaprine
dating-e-site
day-trading
debt-consolidation
debt-consolidation-consultant
discreetordering
duty-free
dutyfree
equityloans
fioricet
flowers-leading-site
freenet-shopping
freenet
gambling-
hair-loss
health-insurancedeals-4u
homeequityloans
homefinance
holdem
holdempoker
holdemsoftware
holdemtexasturbowilson
hotel-dealse-site
hotele-site
hotelse-site
incest
insurance-quotesdeals-4u
insurancedeals-4u
jrcreations
levitra
macinstruct
mortgage-4-u
mortgagequotes
online-gambling
onlinegambling-4u
ottawavalleyag
ownsthis
palm-texas-holdem-game
paxil
penis
pharmacy
phentermine
poker-chip
poze
pussy
rental-car-e-site
ringtones
roulette
shemale
shoes
slot-machine
texas-holdem
thorcarlson
top-site
top-e-site
tramadol
trim-spa
ultram
valeofglamorganconservatives
viagra
vioxx
xanax
zolus