Preventing Comment Spam in WordPress

  1. The blog owner logs into the administration side of their blog.
  2. Over towards the upper right corner, click “Plugins”.
  3. For old blogs, scroll down and click “Activate” to the far right of “WP-SpamFree”.
  4. For newly-created blogs, I think it’s now automatically active [it's just that there was no way for me to go back in all of the old ones and activate it in one fell swoop].
  5. Then click on “Settings” toward the upper right corner.
  6. Click on “Discussion” in the second row of navigation links toward the top left.
  7. UNCHECK “Attempt to notify any blogs…” AND “Allow link notification…(pingbacks & trackbacks)”.
  8. If you don’t want ANY comments, you can also uncheck “Allow people to post comments”. That’ll turn off all ability to receive comments [which you can still enable on a post-by-post basis if desired].
  9. CHECK “An administrator must always approve a comment”.
  10. Click “Save changes” at the bottom of the page.
  11. Next, click “Privacy”.
  12. Select “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” and click “Save changes”.
  13. Last, click “WP-SpamFree”.
  14. Under “Spam options”, check both “Disable trackbacks” and “Disable pingbacks”.
  15. Click “Save Options”.
  16. That SHOULD take care of the comment spam for anyone.

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