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Let's talk about managing spam on your website.
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Allowing comments on your website is a great way to connect with your readers or clients and build a community.
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Unfortunately, allowing comments also opens the door for spammers.
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We have all received messages to become rich overnight or purchase unwanted products.
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Common spam happens when a spammer posts comments to your website via the blog or contacts page.
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In this lesson, we will look at how you can manage and avoid spam on your website by using the built-in features of WordPress and using an anti-spam plugin.
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Let's start with the built-in features.
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By default, WordPress comes with some built-in features to help you prevent spam on your site, which can be found in the Settings Discussion page in your dashboard.
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Limiting the number of links allowed Since spam comments work through backlinks and encourage visitors to the spammer's site, many spam comments will include a high number of links.
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You may be able to catch some spam comments on your site by setting a limit to the number of links allowed before it will be held for moderation or for an admin to approve.
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Just something to take note of.
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The link limit is set to two links by default, but you can lower it to one link per comment.
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It is not recommended to set the limit to zero, otherwise all comments will be held for moderation.
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The second step you can take is to change the comment moderation settings.
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In addition to limiting the number of links in a comment, you can also apply specified words, phrases, usernames, emails, etc.
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in the comment moderation text field
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to automatically hold comments containing these elements in the moderation queue.
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As you will see, I've selected words like gambling, insurance, win, and a link to a cryptocurrency website, as these are things you will often see in spam comments,
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but you're welcome to look at previous comments to flag certain words.
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Next, you can also disallow common keys.
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Or to put it differently, you can have comments with specified words or elements automatically deleted.
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It is like the comment moderation setting, but here you can specify words, phrases, usernames, IP addresses, and so forth to automatically place a comment in the trash.
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This means you do not need to manually move the comment to the trash from the moderation queue.
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The fourth step you can take is to disable trackbacks.
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A large part of spam is trackbacks.
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Trackbacks and pingbacks notify you that another blog has linked to your content and vice versa.
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However, spammers often abuse this feature by sending trackbacks and pings from spam websites.
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The last step you can take in the discussion page is to select all comments to be moderated.
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You can do this by selecting comment must be manually approved.
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Or you can of course choose not to receive any comments at all by deselecting allow people to submit comments.
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Before we move on to plugins, let's look at how to mark a comment as spam.
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Go to comments and as you will see, we have two spam comments here.
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Click on both.
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Cryptocurrencymania and WinBig.
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Go to the bulk action, mark a spam, and then apply.
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Next, another effective way to manage and stop spam is by using an anti-spam plugin.
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There are many free and paid plugins that offer spam protection for your website, which you can find through the WordPress.org plugin directory.
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Some plugins worth mentioning are anti-spam b, clean talk, or a kismet.
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There are multiple plugins to choose from in the plugins directory, so find the one that meets your needs.
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In this example, I'm going to install and activate a kismet.
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Make your way to plugins and click on add new.
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Select a kismet and then click on install now.
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Wait a moment for installation to complete and then click on activate.
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Once you click activate, you will be redirected to a page requesting that you set up an account with a kismet.
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A kismet is free for personal use, so you can select what to pay even if it is $0.
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So I will go ahead and drag the bar on the right to $0 and continue with a personal subscription.
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And once activated, there are a number of settings you can change for how you'd like the plugin to manage spam on your site.
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Let's look at a few more security plugins to consider.
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Capture is a technology used to tell robots and humans apart.
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Find the right capture plugin, as this makes it very hard for spam bots to infiltrate your website.
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Lastly, spam plugins can stop and delete a lot of spam comments, but it can't stop spammers from accessing your website.
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Too many requests from spammers to submit comments can slow down your site and negatively affect performance.
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A firewall plugin such as All-in-One WordPress Security and Firewall, Word Fence, Security or Jetpack will help you block unwanted requests before they even reach your site.
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These plugins will ward off automated bots and scripts from trying to leave comments.
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I trust these tips will help you secure your site and intercept spammers.
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