The WP forums have had quite a few posts lately about this issue, and there is new code around – you may want to use it.
I’m lucky so far in that I can count the spams I’ve had on one hand, but, like Justin, many people are not. My guess – and that’s all it is, is that the spammers have taken a long time to break down the integral spam protection that WP has, and are making up for lost time. Whether that’s right or not doesn’t matter – it’s arrived.
Because of this rash of spammer activity, there is an equal force at work with the WP coders. As of now, Owen has released a new plugin, TechGnome has written some useful code (on my WP Spam page), Kitten has compiled a list of IP’s to block (duly blocked here) and there is still more to be found in the forums. As I said, I have no problem (and is that tempting fate or what ?) but today I’m installing a variety of techniques to make sure it stays that way….
That should come in handy…Ive been getting hammered with it lateley. Most of it gets caught for moderation, but its still a pain in the arse deleting them all, and getting 40 odd emails at a time telling me Ive got comments awaiting moderation.
Grab this one 😉
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/threestrikes.phps
and Kitten’s plugin too.
Mark, thanks for this post. I woke up this AM for the first time with about 30 spam comments which was aggrivating. Hopefully the tools/suggestions you posted will keep it from happening to me again. Gracias!
Yes, it is way out of hand. Its time for me to find another way to kill the spam/ =/