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
Same, I tried registering on my own website and posted an answer there, with “bad words”, and it got validated like a charm (it is set up on auto validation and to be honest I cannot afford to moderate all the publications before publication since there are too many).
I use Akismet and WP-SHIELD, which normally filter spam out properly, but in this case, they don’t.
Anspress is using a custom post type, so that cannot be the explanation, right ? Thanks for your time 🙂
I wrote “answer” so it means “answer”, and answer only (not comments nor questions then 😉 I haven’t tested with comments to be honest as they are not enabled on my website, and haven’t either for questions as I will moderate them before publication 🙂
Well i know what you wrote BUT the Topic was about Comments, so i had to ask so i can test it and see if it works right or not.
I don’t see anything wrong here. I don’t use Akismet so i can’t comment about it and also SHIELD plugin doesn’t offer that kind of spam protection (filtering).
Anspress posts behave the same as blog posts. I don’t see anything wrong.
BUT the original posted didn’t talk about all that. He wrote about COMMENTS.
Ok my bad then, I should have opened a new topic for that.
What are we talking about here ? COMMENTS or Questions and Answers ? And SPAM where ? In Worpress posts and comments or in Anspress ? From Registered users or anonymous ?