Closing comments
I’m fed up to the back teeth with comment spammers, so I decided to do something about it. I do use the wpblacklist plugin, and that’s a great help, but you still miss one or two items when a new spammer appears and you haven’t updated your list. The majority of spam comments are made on old entries, so I decided to set up automatic closing of comments, as described here. I’ve set it to close comments after 14 daysâthat seems about right to me, but if anyone wants me to extend it a bit, just let me know. I’ve put a line in my cron file to run the script every day like this:
GET http://pathtoscript/auto-close.php > /dev/null 2<&1It goes without saying that anybody (except spammers!) who wants to make a comment on a closed entry only has to email me, and I’ll put the comment in myself.
