New WordPress plugin installed
Like many bloggers, I am being targeted increasingly by comment spammers. Comment spammers identify popular blogs and then post comments that (usually) have nothing to do with the blog post that they are commenting on. The primary aim of the comment spammers is to build links to their websites. They hope to gain some traffic for their websites too.
I have always moderated comments so my live blog is not polluted with the comment spammers’ trash. However, comment spammers frequently use automated ‘bots’ with the result that a huge number of spam comments can appear in a very short period of time. Having to review a hundred comments a day became too much for me so I looked for a solution.
Most of the comments that I really disliked had 20 or 30 links in them so I looked for a WordPress plugin that would limit the number of links allowed in a comment. I found ‘Link Limits’ by James McKay.
Link Limits is a WordPress plugin that rejects comments outright if they contain more than two hyperlinks, or if they contain any hyperlinks at all in BBCode format. It also displays a short note on your comment form advising your visitors that you have these restrictions in place. If you want to change the number of hyperlinks that you allow in comments, or ban them completely, you can edit the plugin file. If you want to allow unlimited hyperlinks and just check for BBCode, you can do that too.
Link Limits has made reviewing comments much much quicker and I think that it is very unlikely that it has caught any legitimate comments.
James described the plugin as “1.0 alpha 1″ and says that it has been tested on WordPress 2.1.2 and 2.2 and “is expected to work on all versions of WordPress >= 2.0.” I have not encountered any problems with it on WordPress 2.9.1. If comment spammers are causing you problems, why not give it a try.
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