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I have tried a couple of plugins to try and stop the spam on WordPress, but it seems the plugins may be spam themselves as I have gone from a few spam messages a week to now 20
If you're using WA hosting then Site Protect is built in and should be stopping the spam comments. If you're hosted elsewhere then I recommend Antispam Bee. Akismet Alternative - Antispam Bee The plugin mentioned in the thread below was recommended well before Site Protect was implemented and should not be used now.
This is the plugin that WA recommends
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/
It should already be installed in your WP but if not download and activate.
Robert
Robert, spamshield is already installed globally - no one should add it at the local stie level.
Yes I know but if she has deleted it and then tried other ones she wont have it anymore.
She doesn't actually say what kind of spam she's getting.
It could be malware and there's a great plugin for that as well.
Robert
It is not within our plug-ins menu - it is on the server side, so there is no way she could have deleted it.
Its pre-installed but it can be deleted.
I deleted it from my sites and downloaded another one I preferred.
Well, I created a site last week and it is no longer pre-installed. It is installed on the server side and has been for almost two years now.
That was just a post to give a reason not to use it. AND the spamshield plug-in that they installed, they later implemented at the server side (not individuals sites) not long after that.
I know all this but Carson did publish a blog 3 months before that one of Kyles to tell us that they had implemented a
SiteProtect Comment Spam blocking system
and we wouldn't need anything else so ask yourself - why would Kyle then publish his blog 3 months later?
I'm thinking that sometimes K&C don't always work together.
Anyway 'SweetAngel' might have deleted the SpamShield plugin and uploaded some crap one and she might also not have activated her SiteProtect.
I'm off for the night now so maybe catch you another day.
I remember that post from Kyle as it came shortly after I wrote Akismet Alternative - Antispam Bee in October 2015.
It's no longer applicable because SiteProtect has been implemented at server level. Mel (onmyownterms) has got it right.
Hello Marion
I know this but my argument still stands.
Why would Kyle publish a blog on using SpamShield 3 months after Carson published a blog to say the SiteProtect was all that the members needed?
There's also the fact that members have to know to activate SiteProtect and as yet I have not seen any instruction to do so within the current training.
Hope you day has went well.
Lovely and sunny here in Edinburgh and I will be off out soon.
Take Care.
Robert
No probs Jodie and hope you got it sorted out.
Enjoy your Monday when it dawns for you.
Robert
Are you referring to e-mail SPAM or site comments?
If it's site comments I use the Akismet plugin and it works pretty well.
Askimet is not approved for use at WA - it causes problems and conflicts with SiteProtect, the global anti-spam protection we have here at WA.
Oh really? damn...I only picked it up based on some training here I thought...hmmm OK..let me disable it.
There are a lot of how-to's here that members have written on installing Akismet. Maybe some cleanup should be done. It looks like most were from 2014 or earlier so...
OK, none of the spam plug-ins are compatible with WA. We have SiteProtect enabled already on all of our sites to prevent spam, enabling another plug-in on top of that causes problems.
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I can't stop the spam on wordpress?
I have tried a couple of plugins to try and stop the spam on WordPress, but it seems the plugins may be spam themselves as I have gone from a few spam messages a week to now 20
Jodie, if it is for your sweetangel website, I see that you are not hosting that site at WA. If that's so, perhaps contact your current hosting provider and ask them which anti-spam plugin they recommend.
We get spoiled here with WA site hosting. I have not seen any spam since they installed SiteProtect.
I see your site uses a WordPress theme. Have you considered moving your website hosting to WA? Hosting here is included in the premium membership. ~Jude
I started at WA hosting, but went to another host who is only $5p/m and plan to leave WA after 2yrs shortly as I have found something that suits me better.
Thanks for your help.
Jodie
If you're using WA hosting then Site Protect is built in and should be stopping the spam comments. If you're hosted elsewhere then I recommend Antispam Bee. Akismet Alternative - Antispam Bee The plugin mentioned in the thread below was recommended well before Site Protect was implemented and should not be used now.
This is the plugin that WA recommends
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/
It should already be installed in your WP but if not download and activate.
Robert
Robert, spamshield is already installed globally - no one should add it at the local stie level.
Yes I know but if she has deleted it and then tried other ones she wont have it anymore.
She doesn't actually say what kind of spam she's getting.
It could be malware and there's a great plugin for that as well.
Robert
It is not within our plug-ins menu - it is on the server side, so there is no way she could have deleted it.
Its pre-installed but it can be deleted.
I deleted it from my sites and downloaded another one I preferred.
Well, I created a site last week and it is no longer pre-installed. It is installed on the server side and has been for almost two years now.
That was just a post to give a reason not to use it. AND the spamshield plug-in that they installed, they later implemented at the server side (not individuals sites) not long after that.
I know all this but Carson did publish a blog 3 months before that one of Kyles to tell us that they had implemented a
SiteProtect Comment Spam blocking system
and we wouldn't need anything else so ask yourself - why would Kyle then publish his blog 3 months later?
I'm thinking that sometimes K&C don't always work together.
Anyway 'SweetAngel' might have deleted the SpamShield plugin and uploaded some crap one and she might also not have activated her SiteProtect.
I'm off for the night now so maybe catch you another day.
I remember that post from Kyle as it came shortly after I wrote Akismet Alternative - Antispam Bee in October 2015.
It's no longer applicable because SiteProtect has been implemented at server level. Mel (onmyownterms) has got it right.
Hello Marion
I know this but my argument still stands.
Why would Kyle publish a blog on using SpamShield 3 months after Carson published a blog to say the SiteProtect was all that the members needed?
There's also the fact that members have to know to activate SiteProtect and as yet I have not seen any instruction to do so within the current training.
Hope you day has went well.
Lovely and sunny here in Edinburgh and I will be off out soon.
Take Care.
Robert
No probs Jodie and hope you got it sorted out.
Enjoy your Monday when it dawns for you.
Robert
Are you referring to e-mail SPAM or site comments?
If it's site comments I use the Akismet plugin and it works pretty well.
Askimet is not approved for use at WA - it causes problems and conflicts with SiteProtect, the global anti-spam protection we have here at WA.
Oh really? damn...I only picked it up based on some training here I thought...hmmm OK..let me disable it.
There are a lot of how-to's here that members have written on installing Akismet. Maybe some cleanup should be done. It looks like most were from 2014 or earlier so...
OK, none of the spam plug-ins are compatible with WA. We have SiteProtect enabled already on all of our sites to prevent spam, enabling another plug-in on top of that causes problems.
See more comments
Jodie, if it is for your sweetangel website, I see that you are not hosting that site at WA. If that's so, perhaps contact your current hosting provider and ask them which anti-spam plugin they recommend.
We get spoiled here with WA site hosting. I have not seen any spam since they installed SiteProtect.
I see your site uses a WordPress theme. Have you considered moving your website hosting to WA? Hosting here is included in the premium membership. ~Jude
I started at WA hosting, but went to another host who is only $5p/m and plan to leave WA after 2yrs shortly as I have found something that suits me better.
Thanks for your help.
Jodie
Okay, no worries. All the best with your future endeavors.
~Jude