Comments on: Eliminate WordPress Comment Spam Without A Plugin!

By: ardamis

ardamis — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:04:06 +0000

Terrific article, Everton. But you don’t need to rename the form processing script periodically if you’re willing to rely on JavaScript to do it.

I’ve written an explanation of how to hide the URL of the script in an external JavaScript file, and then write the URL only when a human visitor wants to submit a comment. The bots never see the URL.

Defeating WordPress comment spam

Thanks, and good luck.

By: ardamis

ardamis — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:04:00 +0000

Terrific article, Everton. But you don’t need to rename the form processing script periodically if you’re willing to rely on JavaScript to do it.

Defeating WordPress comment spam

Thanks, and good luck.

By: Joe Dill

Joe Dill — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:14:45 +0000

I got it, where can I se a working plugin?

Joe

By: Joe Dill

Joe Dill — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:14:00 +0000

I got it, where can I se a working plugin?

Joe

By: John Black

John Black — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:07:01 +0000

LoL It’s a nice trick.But renaming to sadas87.php will be better i think

By: John Black

John Black — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:07:00 +0000

LoL It’s a nice trick.But renaming to sadas87.php will be better i think

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:08 +0000

Here’s WP 2.1′s instances of wp-trackback.php:

Searching for: wp-trackback.php
wp-includes\comment-template.php(226): $tb_url = get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/wp-trackback.php?p=’ . $id;
wp-includes\template-loader.php(11): include(ABSPATH . ‘/wp-trackback.php’);
wp-includes\template-loader.php(68): include(ABSPATH . ‘/wp-trackback.php’);

By: agnesw.com

agnesw.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:38:19 +0000

This sounds great. I will try it.

By: its

its — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:12:40 +0000

tesing

By: Everton

Everton — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:20:57 +0000

#Andy – have you tried it yet?

After a couple of weeks some spammers might catch on – just change the name again. I’ve changed mine once so far.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:21:03 +0000

You star! This is amazing – simple, effective, absolutely brilliant! x

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:06:02 +0000

I’ll just change it again when they catch on – takes 2 mins.

By: billg

billg — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:01:16 +0000

Whatever name you give it, that name will be in your files. Spammers will scan the code, find it, and have at it.

By: Angsuman Chakraborty

Angsuman Chakraborty — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:37:31 +0000

That may work initially but spammers very soon catch up. I had my files renamed long time back. Most of my spam are from robots who read the original page to find out the name of the comment file.

By: Everton

Everton — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:11:10 +0000

Yeah I had a few people complain.

Matt – as soon as the spammers catch on, then I’ll just re-name the file again. Will take me one minute to do, even if I have to do it once per week it’s better than having to clean spams out every couple of hours

By: Thilak

Thilak — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:04:37 +0000

Hurray!! Finally I can post my comments here. When I tried to leave my comments last night I got a mysterious error message from Bad Behavior (I guess)

By: Thilak

Thilak — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:02:44 +0000

That’s a great tip, I never really tried it, but I’ll give it a shot later today

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:06:19 +0000

People thought of this years ago, it only works for a little while.