{"id":3086,"date":"2014-01-07T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:06:52","slug":"how-to-prevent-wordpress-blog-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2014\/01\/07\/how-to-prevent-wordpress-blog-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"how to prevent WordPress blog SPAM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAs long as I blogged with Blogger.com, blog SPAM never was a serious issue. Now with my self-hosted WordPress blog(s), that became a very serious issue all of a sudden. Yes, I should just not worry, and just reserve a small weekly (or maybe daily) time-window for moderating the comments \u2013 yes, I enforced strict moderation anyway. But I find the moderation requests through e-mail rather destracting. Right now, when I expressed this, I wondered, whether I can prevent these e-mail messages. And yes, I can. I browsed for the available settings\u00a0within &#8220;Discussion Settings&#8221;, and &#8220;<em>E-mail me whenever<\/em>&#8221; looked appropriate; I unset all of the options listed there. What a relief!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did not have this kind of SPAM with Blogger.com, because I only accepted comments from some kind of registered users. And there is no obvious way, how to do this easily with my self-hosted WordPress site. I certainly don&#8217;t want to enforce and allow registration on my WordPress site. I think, a while ago &#8220;<a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenID\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenID\">OpenID<\/a>&#8221; was considered sort of good for this kind of matter. Maybe during my further future WordPress studies I shall find out, what to do.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I blogged with Blogger.com, blog SPAM never was a serious issue. Now with my self-hosted WordPress blog(s), that became a very serious issue all of a sudden. Yes, I should just not worry, and just reserve a small weekly (or maybe daily) time-window for moderating the comments \u2013 yes, I enforced strict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49,50,715],"tags":[922],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger","category-blogging","category-wordpress","tag-blog-spam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-NM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}