WordPress’s spam filter automatically weeds out about 200 spam comments daily on this blog, but at least another 20 get through. I’ve resorted to using a blacklist to fight spam. What WordPress does is to mark comments as spam if it sees those blacklisted words, or words that contain those words. For example, you might list down ‘taste’ as a blacklisted word. Then any comment containing ‘taste’, ‘tasteful’ and ‘distasteful’ will be flagged as spam. You can download my list of spam words here. Simply paste those words into WordPress’s comment blacklist feature and you should see a drop in the number of spam comments getting through to your blog. This list is by no means exhaustive. It was shared with me by a friend, so feel free to add more words to the list and share with others..
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I'm Alex Choo and I live in sunny Singapore. I'm also the developer of WP Text Ads, a WordPress plugin that lets bloggers sell ads directly to advertisers so that they pay 0% in commissions and earn 100% in profits.
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