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And as I said previously, renaming the wp-comments-post.php file cuts your comment spam drastically.

Having said all that, the only thing which completely eliminated it for me was Authimage!

Best of luck with it and let us know how you get on.

Cheers,

Tom

Twenty Major is correct – the AuthImage WordPress plugin is a godsend for stopping comment spammers.

As well as that, I found that re-naming the comments pages was an extremely easy and effective way of stopping the vast majority of spam – particularly the wp-comments-post.php page.

A neat trick then is to write a file called wp-comments-post.php which captures the IP address of direct accesses to wp-comments-post.php and write them to a block list in the .htaccess file!

Another tack is to increase the minimum time allowed between comments – the default is 10 seconds, I have increased the minimum time on my blog to 300 seconds.

Dunno if you saw this but Keith McDuffee – the author of the excellent AuthImage WordPress plugin has written another plugin to implement Google’s nofollow attribute – for more see http://www.gudlyf.com/

Tbh, there is no easy answer right now to comment spam, you have to take a multi-layered approach, so I think a combination of AuthImage, the file (and variable) re-naming, minimum comment time increasing and the nofollow plugin combined should go a long way to cutting down on the amount of spam you are receiving.

I wrote a bit about this in my blog recently and also last December when it was really exercising me, if you want more detail you can check that out or feel free to mail me directly.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Tom