Comment spam since I use AnsPress
For some time, I have a lot of comment spam on my site and I did not know why. Because I use Akismet and have safe settings.
My discussion settings are the following:
E-mail me whenever
[YES] Anyone posts a comment
[YES] A comment is held for moderation
Before a comment appears
[YES] Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved
[YES] Comment author must have a previously approved comment
However, all comments will be published without my moderation or an E-mail to me.
And now I have noticed that it is related to the use of AnsPress plugin.
When I disable the AnsPress plugin, then the comments must be moderated again and I get an E-mail.
And the user gets the notice “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
But is the plugin enabled, comments are simply published.
If it helps, here is a history of such an comment:
1 day ago (Fri 28 Nov 2014 @ 01:34:11 am GMT) – Comment status was changed to 1
1 day ago (Fri 28 Nov 2014 @ 01:34:11 am GMT) – Akismet caught this comment as spam
And I am using AnsPress 1.4.1
Has anybody the same problem?
Best regards
Manuel
Hi Rahul,
no comment on this issue?
For me it seems that AnsPress overrides the basic WordPress discussion settings and that’s why I get comment spam in normal blog posts. Or is it just a misconfiguration in my setup?
If it is an AnsPress issue, can we expect a bugfix for that?
I would be glad to hear from you.
Best regards
Manuel
