WordPress: Preventing Spam
Spam on your WordPress website may not just be an annoyance, but it may also result in a poor experience for the user, bad data arrangement, and the site could be a window to cyber threats. Good news: Bluehost made an exhaustive resource that teaches people how preventing spam helps in the most efficient way. This article walks you through steps on how not to have spamming troubles on your site and prevent spam using anti-spam plugins, CAPTCHAs, and many others to make your site more neat, secure, and professional.
How to Prevent Users and Robots from Posting Spam
These steps will help you prevent users and robots from posting Spam on your WordPress blog.
- Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
- Inside the WordPress Dashboard, select Settings, then Discussion in the navigation bar on the left.
- From the Discussion page, scroll down.
- Check the box next to Users must be registered and logged in to comment.
- Check the box next to Comment must be manually approved.
- You can enter words, phrases, or content into a box that will hold comments for you to moderate them.
- You can enter words, phrases, or content into a box that will delete comments containing these things.
- Scroll down to the bottom and click Save Changes.
Your WordPress blog has now been approved to fight against Spam.
Summary
Controlling spam on your WordPress site would be vital to the overall integrity of your site, as well as enhance the user experience. CAPTCHAs and anti-spam plugins listed here could effectively reduce spam on your site. Thanks to experts at Bluehost for giving you a safe and warm welcome for your good visitors.
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