{"id":149,"date":"2004-11-30T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-11-30T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T15:10:40","slug":"fighting-wordpress-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/fighting-wordpress-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"fighting WordPress spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve helped a few folks out with <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\" title=\"I use wordpress, as does everyone else on deadsquid\">WordPress<\/a> spam, and had started writing a quick and dirty <abbr title=\"Frequently Asked Questions\">FAQ <\/abbr> on how to set it up (I&#8217;ve had close to zero spam since implementing my fixes). I was trolling the WordPress support forums, and there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/tamba2.org.uk\/wordpress\/spam\/\" title=\"Damn evil spammers\">decent third-party overview<\/a> of fighting comment spam on sites powered by WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>The list is fairly comprehensive, but there&#8217;s not a lot in the &#8220;How do I?&#8221; category, so you&#8217;ll have to do a bit of reading to make things work. For anyone that&#8217;s hosted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadsquid.com\/\">deadsquid<\/a> and reading this, you can ping me if you need some help. <\/p>\n<p>If you run WordPress, haven&#8217;t put any blacklisting in place, and are sick of texas holdem and online poker comment spams, have a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve helped a few folks out with WordPress spam, and had started writing a quick and dirty FAQ on how to set it up (I&#8217;ve had close to zero spam since implementing my fixes). I was trolling the WordPress support forums, and there is a decent third-party overview of fighting comment spam on sites powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hwsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}