Title: Spam comments without comment forms?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Spam comments without comment forms?

 *  [wohoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wohoo/)
 * (@wohoo)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/)
 * Hi all. I’m having an odd issue.
    I recently switched over to Disqus comments
   and removed WordPress’ own comment form entirely, yet from the backend I see 
   I still get spam comments on posts?
 * How is this possible?
 * Disqus is not synced with the database, I installed it solo.

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 *  [BlazeForce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazeforce/)
 * (@blazeforce)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/#post-2060927)
 * Spambots are ruthless, even if you have Disqus installed they will show. Do you
   have Akismet or a spamming plugin activated?
 *  Thread Starter [wohoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wohoo/)
 * (@wohoo)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/#post-2060929)
 * I thought I didn’t need Akismet once the interface to post comments was gone.
   I guess I’ll re-install it.
 * How can they spambots send information to the database though without an actual
   form?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/#post-2061013)
 * By passing the data directly in via a URL.
 * I would install Bad Behavior, which will stop them before they can post. Also
   the Cookies for Comments plugin.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/#post-2061020)
 * Or block no-referrer spambots directly via .htaccess:
 *     ```
       # protect from spam comments
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*example.com.* [OR]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
       RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]
       ```
   
 * Change “example.com” to your domain, and {REMOTE_ADDR} to wherever you want to
   send the spambots

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-comments-without-comment-forms/#post-2061020)
 * Status: not resolved

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