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bjbj P75M Filename: wp-spam-control Duration: 4 mins 31 secs In this video, I m going to
show you some simple but extremely effective ways to further eliminate unwanted spam from
your WordPress blog. Now, of course, you should have the Akismet WordPress plugin installed,
and that would get rid of most of the obvious spam. However, there are many other types
of spam as well that would not necessarily be solved by having the Akismet plugin. So
the easiest way to do it is to go to Settings and click on Discussion. Now, under Discussion
settings, if you scroll down, you ll see some options here that can actually help you to
eliminate a lot of spam. The first is to email you whenever anyone posts a comment or when
a comment is held for moderation. Now, this really depends on how actively you wanna be
involved in the process of approving comments on your blog. So if you wanna be really, really
involved, then make sure that you check the option to alert you whenever anyone posts
a comment. Now, if you don t want to be that particular about the comments, then you can
just uncheck this and just leave the next option as Enabled, to email you whenever a
comment is held for moderation. Now, right below that, you can actually specify how and
when a comment should be held in moderation. Okay? Now, easiest way to do this is to make
sure that the comment author must have a previously approved comment. So if someone is commenting
on your blog for the first time, then WordPress will look at the person s email address and
determine that this email address had never left a comment before, and therefore the comment
will be held for moderation, and therefore you will receive an email when that comment
is posted. Okay, and if you wanna be more strict about it, you can also choose to alert
you whenever someone posts a comment and every comment must be approved by you, okay? So
again, it really depends on how much time you want to spend doing all these things.
Next under comment moderation, you can hold a comment in the queue if it contains a certain
amount of links. Now, this is a very obvious telltale sign of spammers; especially those
types of spammers that probably would get through the automatic spam detection like
Akismet. A lot of people like to leave links to their own websites as a signature in their
comments. So if you don t want this, okay, so you can put the amount of links that is
allowed. For example, by default, it is two. So if someone posts a comment and in their
comment, they have posted more than two links, then that comment will be held in moderation.
And right below that, you can actually specify the words, email address, or IP address to
look out for. And anything you specify here will mean that the comment will be entered
into the moderation queue as well. Right below that, you have the Comment Blacklist. Now,
this is really useful for you to automatically mark certain comments as spam. For example,
unless your blog is about ***, then it s obvious that anyone posting a comment with
the keyword *** in it is gonna be obvious spam. Okay? So you can put that in here, and
you can expand this list as time goes on; alright, and then you can scroll down; click
on Save Changes. Okay, so just by enabling some of the settings here, you can make sure
that your blog is 100% spam-free. Of course, you have the Akismet spam plugin, and now,
with these additional settings here, you would make sure that any of the smarter, or not
obvious, spam comments that get past or get through Akismet actually end up in the moderation
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