Comment specs… a question

  • evilhippo

    (@evilhippo)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I am about to move to WordPress from MoveableType but as I get a lot of visitors (5,000 on a bad bad, 20,000 on a good day), I have significant comment management issues.

    Ideally I would like to manage comments in a somewhat similar way to how I do at the moment, so I need some plug-in advice for you grizzled WP veterans:

    Comments are not 100% pre-publish moderated but *are* filtered for spam (presumably Akismet would be suitable in WP) and currently I also use a Captcha/Turing Test system (if Askismet is good enough, maybe I can dispense with the Captch)…

    …but I also need help managing the blogroaches who are not strictly speaking ‘spam’. I do that now in MoveableType with a key word filter that when triggered by a ‘suspect’ word, holds the comment for moderation and I would love to be able to do that in WordPress. Ideally it would also be nice to be able to somehow allow trusted commenters to bypass all the filters via a whitelist or something like that.

    Can anyone tell me if any combination of plug-ins exists for WP that would let me do all that? Many thanks.

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  • Roy

    (@gangleri)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Do you have a WP (test) install up and running? Most questions are answered by looking through the “dashboard”.
    You can choose to have to approve all comments or not. I have this unchecked, but you will indeed need a good spamfilter. I personally use Bad Behavior in combination with JS Spamblock and I rarely get spam through (but I don’t have your traffic).
    Captcha? I don’t use it.
    As for the roaches, standard WP settings include:

    Hold a comment in the queue if it contains [your number here] or more links. (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)

    When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be held in the moderation queue. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

    About the trusted users, I haven’t heard of that. Their could be a plugin for that, but I don’t know.

    And as an endnote, with your traffic, you might want to have a look into a plugin such as WP super cache.

    Thread Starter evilhippo

    (@evilhippo)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Do you have a WP (test) install up and running?

    Not yet, but should do by Sunday night.

    As for the roaches, standard WP settings include…

    That looks excellent.

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    There’s even more about the roaches, you can have words that will put the comments in the approval queue and another box that will throw comments in the spam list.

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