As we all know, spam comments can become a big and really annoying issue as your website grows ...

All those spam comments can hurt your site in various different ways, and what’s worst is if you accidentally approve a spam comment, then it makes your brand look bad!

More than that, spam comments take up unnecessary space in your Wordpress database, making your site slower and slower ...

Luckily, there are multiple ways to block spam comments in Wordpress.

You can do it manually by reading and deleting them one by one, but that could be very time consuming if you have a popular, well-established website/blog.

Another method: you can use a CAPTCHA solution to avoid comment spam. CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Not so long ago I already published a short tutorial on this topic. If you haven't seen it yet, here it is again:

How to block comment spam in Wordpress with NoCAPTCHA

But, there's an even smarter way! A free plugin that will allow you to automatically block the spam comments based on the rules that you set.

Sounds cool, isn't it? This is why I've decided to create this short tutorial where I will show you how easy is to create/set your own rules in order to automatically block spam comments in Wordpress.

Interested?

Let's do this!