How to Prevent WordPress Comment Spamming

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Enabling comments on your WordPress site is a great way of interacting with your users and customers, as well as building a community. However, it can make your site a target for SPAM if proper preventative measures are not taken. In light cases, comment SPAM may just be annoying for your users. In extreme cases, it could impact the performance or even search engine ranking of your site.

Here are the various instructions, modifications of discussion settings & spam prevention plugins to help prevent the 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

In these ways you will be able to protect WordPress websites from comment spamming.

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