Comment Timeout - Spam Fighter

Comments off · April 27, 2007 at 7:24 am · Web Development

I’ve been looking for a good WordPress comment to help me fight the comment and trackback spam I have been getting lately. One solution was to turn off commenting for posts that were so many days old. I like this idea - because I highly doubt somebody today is going to feel motivated to comment on something I posted two or three years ago.

With that said, I found the tool I was looking for in Comment Timeout. This wonderful plugin allows you to:

• It lets you close comments on old entries that do not have an ongoing, active discussion.
• It examines your spam queue and your Bad Behavior logs to let you close comments and trackbacks across the board to troublesome IP addresses.
• It allows you to reject comments that contain too many hyperlinks, or links in BBCode format.

I have used this on the Web Hosting Show’s Web site for a few days now and have been enjoying the result. As soon as I get the time to do so, I’ll be rolling this out on all of my Web sites.