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Closing Comments to Control Spam
About a week ago, I set WordPress to automatically close comments on posts over 90 days old on my Reclaimer website. Spam comments over there have become completely unreasonable lately, with Akismet catching and filtering out upwards of 300 spam a day. The vast majority ended up going into the Pending queue rather than the [...]
Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments
By Jim on December 5, 2009
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing and infuriating process, and there is no ‘Check for Spam’ button in [...]
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