VTC for Web Hosting: WordPress - Simple HTML Modifications Against Comment Spammers
As the site becomes more and more popular, it’s almost a destiny for the website to fall a victim of comment spamming. Comment spamming is nowadays done automatically. Cyber criminals use zombie computers to post comments. If you use WordPress, you can install anti-spammer plug-ins to deal with them. But there are some spammers who go to blogs and post comments manually.
This video tutorial shows how to modify a couple of WordPress files to stop these classical spammers from posting comments. If you take a look at the way these classical spammers post comments, a solution can be simple. And if you have an HTML editor like BBEdit and Adobe Dreamweaver, it’ll take just one minute or two to make necessary modifications. (more…)
