Get rid of spam comments with this detailed guide to the plugins and built-in features that will keep them at bay 🚫

WordPress is a platform we all love, but one frustrating thing about it is having to deal with large volumes of comment spam. No matter what type of blog your business runs, you will have to figure out or come up with a strategy on how to stop WordPress comment spam at some point.

Too much comment spam will harm your site. It can negatively impact your search engine rankings, affect the credibility of your discussion among legitimate commenters, and could have a security impact.

Luckily for us, there are a lot of great built-in features, tricks, and settings you can easily enable and or install to reduce up to 99% of your spam. Yes, you can really reduce it that much! Stop wasting time managing spam comments and tune in to learn the best tricks to get rid of it.

🕘Timestamps

  • 0:00 Stop WordPress Spam Comments with Built-In Features
  • 1:43 Disable Comments Entirely
  • 2:36 Turn off Anonymous Comments
  • 3:17 Enable Comment Moderation
  • 4:16 Only Allow Comments from Logged In Users
  • 4:51 Create a List of Blocklisted Words
  • 5:53 Reduce or Ban Links in Comments

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7 Ways to Stop WordPress Spam Comments with Built-In Features
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