It has been brought to my attention today that there is a large amount of spam comments that wordpress has had but I do not allow comments to be seen unless I have approved them, the drawback of this is that I normally don’t notice that someone has made a comment. I am trying to get a plugin sorted out that will make you ask for an image before it will allow you to post. Until then the service will be temperamental as the MySQL database gets turned on and off.
6:30pm the same day.
I have been having problems with the counter measures I have install. What I am trying to do is get the wordpress system to ask the user what is written in a image that the server generates, this will prevent bots from being able to make comments. What I am doing now is removing all the comments from the database and closing all comments and pings for the posts, this is for all the wordpress system on this server.
I have install JS Spam Blocker and I am testing it out by making this post. If this does work I will install it on all the other wordpress systems on the server and all that are made from now on to protest the users form the content that the spam exsposed them to.