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Highly recommend: Wordpress Comment Timeout Plugin

Posted on April 27, 2007.

In the past couple months I've been having spam troubles at Liquid Designs. Even though Akismet was blocking 99.99% of the thousand or so spams the site was getting every day, there would always be one or two that would get through, and they were almost always trackbacks. Spammers were targeting old posts, too, thinking that would somehow make it easier to slip by. I needed to stop allowing comments on old posts in order to stop this spam.

I looked up automatic-comment-closing plugins for Wordpress and found a fresh one for Wordpress 2+, Comment Timeout. I'm here to let you know that regardless of whether or not you need to close comments on old posts, if you have a Wordpress blog you need this plugin. It allows you to:

If it isn't obvious already, this comments has useful features for every kind of blog. I'm certain that it's a great tool alongside any spam protection a blog may have, and any blog that gets even a little bit of traffic should have it.

5 Comments

  1. Meg on April 27, 2007

    I use Wordpress and I've been having ridiculous problems with spam even with Askimet. It's to the point where I can't even stand to go to the Wordpress login page because twenty minutes is inevitably spent erasing all of the crap that gets through the filter. (It sounds as though even loads more is getting through in my case.)

    Thanks for this! I'm sure Phil will see this post but I'm going to pass the info along anyway.

  2. Phil Renaud on April 28, 2007

    ahahah
    man
    you know what? I was already in the process of sending this link to Meg when I looked down at the comments. Etrange, cela.

  3. Christian Montoya on April 28, 2007

    Ha ha, you two are on the same brain waves or something. Meg, are you sure Akismet is activated correctly on your blog? Make sure to check the options page and see if your activation key is working. Also, you should update to the latest version of the plugin.

  4. Meg on April 29, 2007

    Christian Montoya, you are great. Problem fixed. :)

  5. Christian Montoya on April 29, 2007

    Ha! I win!

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