Comments on: Ban IP to Stop WordPress Comment Spam Forever

By: Crazy13

Crazy13 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:01:15 +0000

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By: Mr.Carrot98

Mr.Carrot98 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:09:39 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:23:45 +0000

I read all comments and I think this is a great tool anyway. I understand that by blocking IP you may block other innocent users as well, mainly when sharing IP address, but when I started my blog I had a few spams a week and it was easy to manage through Akismet, now I have two blogs and the first is receiving circa 20 spams a day and the second one about 5 – 10 spams a day. About 60% are from the same IP address and I really got tired manually reviewing Akismet list and deleting all the scrap in there, so I wanted something, which would block these addresses at all without me bothering myself by manual deletion of it.

I am also going to create an e-mail form and allow blocked user to send me a message that I am blocking him/her. If I will see in the stats that some blocked IP address has only one or two attempts in a month or so I will release it back, while heavy spammers remain on the black list.

I was really tired of spending my time browsing and deleting all the crap manually. Thanks for this plugin.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:34:45 +0000

Thanks, you know a place where i can get a huge list of IP’s? im setting up a code where you need a php include and all the IP’s are banned :D

Super post though!

By: JS

JS — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:15:03 +0000

I am using IP banning from my .htacceess file. I feel that this is the best option I have. It is the safer.

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By: p1nk g33k

p1nk g33k — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:36:23 +0000

Jacob Share hit the nail on the head. That’s exactly what I was thinking.

The blog owner said that adding the IP address to the .htaccess file takes a long time, but you still have to do something similar with WP-Ban. So, I’d rather just mark comments as spam or delete them once I actually *see* the comment than just block certain IP addresses from posting to my site, when the abuser may be using a shared IP address from their ISP (or happen to be using the same proxy for whatever reason).

By: Bob Campbell

Bob Campbell — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:48:39 +0000

You know folks, you can’t please everyone.. that sounds like the liberal way of doing things.. you get no results without positive action.. spammers use ip’s that are accessable to them.. if these ip’s get blocked by the server (httpd.conf or .htaccess) it just shortens the list of bad servers that are spamming and helps your server to work less. Why even accept an incoming BOT, email or comment when your server can stop them in their tracks. Sure, you may lose a few visitors, but you get to sleep at night not waking up to Wordpress emails that have 50 website addresses in them..

Cheers,
Bob

By: Multi-Monitor

Multi-Monitor — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:51:57 +0000

I’ll have to try this out. It should make things a lot easier. I hate it when legitimate commenters get blocked. It’s bad for business!

By: Bob Firestone

Bob Firestone — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:31:01 +0000

In the first 30 minutes after installing wp-ban it has already stopped the spambot 6 times. SWEET!!!