I installed WordPress along with a few add-ons to combat spam. Both are for registered and non-registered members posting comments. I added a standard Captcha as well as a mathematical challenge question (5 + what = Eleven). I have tried different Things and software, but the result is the same. I receive daily spam emails.
It serves the spammer no good, as I review all comments, but that does not stop comments.
Do spammers now have humans go to the same website daily and try to just sent out spam (unlikely) or is it just a software program. In the latter case, why is the WordPress add-ons not stopping spam comments.
Do others have the same issue? Did I miss something, when setting up WordPress?
Use these three plugins in combination:
Ditch the captcha and math plugins, they’re pretty much useless. The combination of these three is enough for most anybody, without having to put any problems back on the user.
Actually Spammers becomes smarter. If you want to fight with them you must have to be more smarter than a Spammers.
I recommend you to use The 2 Free WordPress plugin and a little tweak your WordPress settings:
As you know that, WordPress is the most advanced Blogging Platform and It has some advanced configuration to fight with Spam. You can configure discussion settings from Settings > Discussion. Here you will find various option about commenting and prevent spammers.
You can also paste the following lines to your .htaccess, It will dramatically reduce spam comments to your WordPress:
Hope this will reduce spam comments to your WordPress 🙂
Best way to reduce spam is point of entry which is at the user registration. If you stop bots there then you will reduce a lot of spam. A neat little plug-in that has come out for wordpress is No More Captchas which uses bio-chronometric technology which uses type, click, or touch as a means of security. It will determine if you are a human or bot. There is a free version too. Jumbled up words and several re-entry’s are a thing of the past.