How to Prevent WordPress Comment Spamming

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Enabling comments on your WordPress site is an excellent method to engage with your users and customers, as well as foster a sense of community. However, it can lead to your site becoming a target for SPAM if appropriate preventive actions are not implemented. In mild instances, comment SPAM may simply be bothersome for your users. In more severe situations, it might affect your site’s performance or even its search engine ranking.

Here are various instructions, adjustments to discussion settings, and spam prevention plugins that can assist in minimizing WordPress comment spam.

Modify Discussion Settings

  1. Change comment approval settings in WordPress
  2. Change the number of links allowed in a WordPress comment
  3. Change which comments require moderation in WordPress
  4. Change who can comment in WordPress
  5. Disable comments on old posts in WordPress
  6. Disable comments in WordPress
  7. Disable trackbacks and pingbacks in WordPress
  8. Setup a comment blacklist in WordPress

Reduce SPAM for a single post or pages

  1. Disable comments for a single WordPress post
  2. Disable WordPress trackbacks and pingbacks for a single post

Install SPAM prevention plugins

  1. Install a comment SPAM prevention plugin in WordPress
  2. Install a CAPTCHA plugin in WordPress

Remove comments

  1. Remove WordPress comments
  2. Remove WordPress comments within the database

Disable external comment requests

  1. Disable external WordPress comment requests

By following these methods, you can safeguard WordPress sites against comment spam.

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