Asking You: Filtering Past Comment Spam in WordPress?

06 Mar
2007

Posted by David Peralty as BloggingPro News, WordPress Plugins

Well, I have finally come to a problem that I don’t have an immediate response for. I am looking for your help to fix. I have a blog where I moved it from Movable Type to WordPress, and it has tons of comment spam on its posts. I was wondering if anyone knew of an updated tool that will work with WordPress 2.1.2 to go through into the past and either flag or remove all that old comment spam?

The blog has Akismet on it, but that doesn’t deal with the past, unless there is a setting I am missing, and thus will look fairly silly. So let me know what plugins I can use to filter past comment spam.

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14 Responses

Aaron Brazell

March 6th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
1

You could… get someone… to write a one off script that cycles through your comments and sends them to Akismet for analysis…
Jason

March 6th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
2

If you install SpamKarma2 (which plays nicely with Akismet), you can run all of your comments through their filters. I think that will get you what you want.
Everton

March 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
3

Use Sk2 - you can run old comments through all of the filters at anytime
rui

March 6th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
4

You could also try indian outsorsing..

just kidding..
Lorelle

March 6th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
5

I believe that the newest Akismet version includes rechecking comments for comment spam. But the Spam Karma recommendation is also a good one.
Ajay

March 6th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
6

Will go with SK2, with the SK2-Akismet plugin installed. It will run through your comments and check them up with Akismet as well.

You can then choose to moderate the ones detected as spam.
Doug Karr

March 6th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
7

Of course, the root issue here is that all comments are posted to the same form, wp-comments-post.php. Ideally, it would be ideal if you could somehow rename or move this file where it’s not easily identified. I believe trackbacks come via xml-rpc so I’m not sure why they don’t offer this… perhaps it’s because Akismet makes some money. I would hate to say that, but I wonder.

I utilize Bad Behavior and it seems to stop about 90% of bad submissions. I’ve only gotten one complaint from someone stating they couldn’t post, and I simply added them to a whiltelist.

Regards,
Doug
Dave

March 7th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
8

We had a similar situation when we moved our sports blog to Wordpress and SK2 worked like a champ. You can run your old comments through the filters very easily.
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March 7th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
9

[...] Looking for advice: weeding spam out of a blog transitioned from Movable Type to WordPress. [...]
anna

March 8th, 2007 at 1:10 am
10

Yeah- akismet does it retro too, I believe.
David Peralty

March 8th, 2007 at 10:28 am
11

I will give SK2 a try. Thanks to everyone that has commented here.
Texter

May 10th, 2007 at 10:55 am
12

Yeah SK2 is the best anti-spam tool for wordpress.
Frank

July 27th, 2007 at 11:41 am
13

nice anti-spam tool !! thanks my friend
Jim

September 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
14

Good, a great anti-sapm tool