Questions tagged [spam]
Unsolicited messages (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site, disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email.
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Automated spam being caught in 2 posts. Can this be used to help get rid of spam on everyone's sites?
I don't know why but I have two old posts that seem to be attracting spam from some automated system or bot. It doesn't bother me but is there a way to use this data to try and help reduce spam on ...
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WordPress Site has 35K spam images
I am helping a client whose site has numerous plugins and 35K spam images from Zillow. They are in the media library. He also has 100K spam comments. I have since then disabled the comments. He ...
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Emails not getting delivered to Hotmail addresses
Recently Hotmail users are unable to receive their password email when they register or use the "Forgot my password" link to get a reset link emailed to them. So far this is only a problem for hotmail....
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Getting thousands of registration spam
We have tried the range of Captcha options, and now have Facebook Connect with Akismet installed as a constant, but still can't stop thousands of spam registrations from attacking our WordPress site. ...
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How are certain words allowed in comments?
I want to improve Wordpress blacklist. Wordpress suspends the comment when it catches a word added to the blacklist. But this creates some problems. Because wordpress makes a match. For example, let's ...
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How to prevent spams from admin-ajax.php file?
I noticed today that a spammer is posting comments on my website using the admin-ajax.php file. Does this mean that my website is hacked?
If it is not hacked, how can I prevent that person from ...
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Why does my admin email address keep changing to something random?
Every once in a while, I see an email like this:
Someone (hopefully you) has used this email to register at My Website
Username: *********
Password: *********
Thanks
My Website
I login to my ...
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Subpage is redirecting to spam site
My Wordpress site has recently been hacked and I followed the steps described here to clear it: https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/
The whole site redirected to a spam ...
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Using htaccess to prevent spam through wp-comments-post.php
I have a lot of spam comments being posted on my WordPress site. It is being posted using the wp-comments-post.php file. I can see from the logs:
"POST /wp/wp-comments-post.php HTTP/1.0" 302 3744 "...
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How can I automatically delete comments that contain a URL?
My WordPress website is being bombarded by spam comments. Nearly all of them contain a valid URL.
How can I delete these comments automatically? I don't want to put them into the review queue; I just ...
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How to track down a phantom contact form?
Spammers are using a contact form on our Wordpress site to spam us, but I can't find which form it is. It's (presumably) from our site because it has the standard footer "This e-mail was sent from a ...
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Automatically reject a comment if website field contains anything
I've done a bunch of searching but can't seem to find a hack to do this, all I can find is how to remove the website field from the form. I want to leave it there, but if someone enters a url into the ...
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how to prevent the spam on search function?
I use a the plugin search meter to record users' searches on my website, but recently i got a lot of spam searches, is there any methods to prevent the spam? Screenshot as below:
Thanks in advance!
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Spam written by registred users
I have build a small wordpress site with two users with role=author. Recently spam posts are made from those two of the users - they are infrequent (one pr month of so), short, without any links and ...
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Site has fake users registered with a similar pattern in username and email
Website keeps getting hundred of fake users.
Registration form has reCaptcha but no effect.
By changing required fields in form to add First Name and Last Name required still fake users keep getting ...
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New accounts daily at WP Multi-User site under development, Analytics reports no traffic. What gives?
I'm working on a Wordpress Multi-user site (Buddypress?). Every day, there are between 5-15 new accounts created, yet Google Analytics is reporting little-to-no traffic.
The site is far from finished,...
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How to get rid of spam forever?
I would like to know how I can permanently remove spam from my client's site. It was so bad that the registration page for new users to sign up was disabled and I am trying to enable it again but it ...
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Comment moderation
I am using a plugin (dwqa) that overrides wordpress' Settings->Discussion options (eg: I select "Comment author must have a previously approved comment" but comments are approved regardless).
If I ...
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Prevent incoming $_GET requests
I used to have an old RSS feed setup on one of my sites, but have since removed it - due to the number of users accessing it. For whatever reason the number of hits to the RSS feed has brought down my ...
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Hold a comment in the queue if it contains [X] or more links
I don't understand this option.
The English version of the description says:
Hold a comment in the queue if it contains [X] or more links
The German version says:
Einen Kommentar in die ...
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Contact form spam, without form?
I previously had a contact page with the theme built-in contact form.
I received a lot of spam with that form, and one day I had to change it to add functionalities (upload to google docs) and I ...
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How do spam users register while I've only enabled registration by Gmail via Janrain?
In wp-login.php?action=register, I've disabled text fields (sorry this web site is in Japanese only but hope you can see that there's no text field) and enabled registration only via social login by ...
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Auto-deleting comments that trigger the blacklist
By default, the WP 'blacklist' feature finds comments containing the blacklisted string and moves them to the spam folder. What I am trying to do is change it so that instead of going to spam, the ...
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Adding a “Report the post” button/form?
I have a user-generated-content website with WP.
I would like to allow the readers to notify me of posts that should be taken down.
I need to:
add a button to the end of each posts, that when ...
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404 Page when emptying spam or deleting a plugin
I have recently had a website migrated by my host over to a new server within the same network.
I have now noticed that within the WordPress dashboard, if I try and do any of the following...
Empty ...
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comments are going to spam
Why all wordpress comments are going to spam? I didn't installed any plugins to protect blog from comment and trackback spam.
Please help me to find a solution.
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How can I prevent wordpress from sending emails
I would like to stop all email functionality in my wordpress installation.
Is this possible with a global flag?
or maybe by forbidding this installation to use the php mail function at all in ...
