Being a blogger you must have experienced a plethora of spam comments in your blog. Spamming is done with an aim to get links through various means and spam commenting is one of the most easiest way to do so. Spam commenting not only annoys you but at the same time, it reduces the efficiency of your blog. Spam comments provides irrelevant and useless information that can irritate the readers of your blog post. WordPress, CMS (Content Management System) platform, is stuffed with so many plugins that can help you in controlling these spam comments. But you can't rely completely on plugins as using a plugin is not the ultimate solution. Now you must be thing, “if plugin is not the solution here, then what?” Here we have compiled a list of a few tips and plugins that can help you to get rid of all those spam comments. Check them out: Moderate comment section regularly – A little time consuming, but the most efficient method. If you timely moderate your comment section then it will be much easy for you to get rid of all those spam comments that are ruining your WordPress blog post with all those useless informations. This method needs your efforts, all you have to do is check whether the comment is relevant to your post or not. Block the IP Addresses of Spammers – WordPress dashboard stores the IP address of the person that comments at your blog post. You can block the IP address of the one who use to spam regularly simply by using the following code to your root .htaccess: # block ip order allow,deny deny from 192.168.44.201 deny from 224.39.163.12 allow from all It is this simple. Plugins – Plugins, the most easiest way to reduce spam comments from your WordPress blog site. WordPress has plethora of anti-spam plugins that can filter comments those comments that appears like spam. 1.Akismet: This plugin filters the spam comments by detecting and analyzing the links and coding in the comments. 2.Recaptcha: This plugin generates code that only humans can read and bots cannot. 3. In the end; Above mentioned tips and plugins might not give you 100% protection against spam commenting but if you them, you can surely create a barrier against spammers and hence keep them away from your WordPress blog site. This post is shared by MarkupBox, a specialized PSD to HTML Conversion Company, backed with years of experience and diligent professionals. We also offer software implementation services like PSD to Wordpress, PSD to Magento, PSD to Joomla and PSD to Drupal and much more.
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