In the past few years, the website development industry has lots of strategies and framework updates to design more customer-friendly websites. When it comes to using web designing frameworks, WordPress grows as one of the most successful Web Development solutions for businesses to design an easy to navigate and user-friendly website.
However, WordPress is not only for website development, but also used as a content management system (CMS). Moreover, it is one of the best blogging tool used by bloggers for blog posting. But as we all know that the counts of cyber fraud and spamming are increasing nowadays.
WordPress is also similar to other online platforms and if you are using Wordpress for blogging then you can better understand the term comment spam. If not, then no need to worry, this blog post will help you to protect your blogs and stop comment spam in WordPress. After reading this post, you can securely use WordPress for blogging.
What do you know about comment spamming?
Usually, comment spamming can happen when a website starts generating more traffic. However, despite countless efforts of WordPress web developers, the number of comment spam is still the same. According to statistic graphs shown by Akismet, the count of WordPress comment spam is 24 times higher rather than genuine comments.
To get over with this issue many bloggers start disabling the comment section or deleting comments manually. But as per web developers, disabling comments can affect their audience too because commenting is the only way to increase visitor engagement. So here are a few tips that will help professionals to stop comment spam without affecting the relevant audience:
Change comment moderation settings first
The first step you need to make sure that not even a single comment cannot be published before grant manual approval. This step will give you full control over every comment and it can be visible on your post only if you want to make it visible.
To facilitate this feature, go to the Settings » Discussion page in the WordPress admin area. Then, scroll down to the ‘Before a comment appears’ section and check the box next to ‘Comment must be manually approved’ option as mentioned in the below image.
Use anti-spam protection
Using anti-spam protection is one of the best ways to prevent comment spam in WordPress. You can choose from dozens of anti-spam plugins such as Akismet, AntiSpam Bee, WP- SpamShield, AntiSpam by Cleantalk, Wordpress Zero Spam and much more available in the market. These anti-spam plugins work
Disable anonymous comments
To stop comment spam, you can also turn off comments that come from an unknown person. This feature will ask some specific information of visitors like an inquiry form (Name, Email ID, website and comment) which will help you to get fewer spam comments on WordPress.
To disable anonymous comments, go to the Settings » Discussion page in the WordPress admin area. Then, scroll down to the ‘Other comment setting’ section and check the box next to “Comment author must fill out name and email” option as mentioned in the below image.
So at the end of this blog post, I hope the above tricks will help you to stay away from spam comments on WordPress. To acquire more information about WordPress Website Development Services, you probably read our previous blogs available on the official website of ProICT LLC. In case, having any confusion or difficulty, you may contact our experts who will help you to strengthen your security on WordPress and other online platforms too. If you want to share your thoughts or comments about this blog then go ahead. We are waiting for your valuable comments and suggestions.