How To Prevent Comment Spam
Posted on December 8th, 2006 | Category: Tutorials, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 7 Comments »You might have noticed that you get most of your comment spam on older posts, this is because spammers target older posts as they are indexed by search engines. So it might be a good idea to automatically disable comments on older posts (posts that are 21 or more days old). This tip will be useful to you currently as Akismet is down.
For WordPress users, there is a plugin called Auto-Close Comments that will automatically disable comments after 21 days.
I just installed the plugin and I haven’t got any spam ever since even though Akismet is down
To install the plugin, go here and simply copy the plugin code provided there and paste it to your favorite text editor and save the file as autoshutoff.php. Now upload the file to your plugins folder and activate the plugin.


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