Title: Spam problems? (solution1)
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# Spam problems? (solution1)

 *  [tr909](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tr909/)
 * (@tr909)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/)
 * Ok i just installed two fresh WordPress (1.3) blogs and without announcing them
   to whomever, i got casino spam out of nowhere (although notices of posts are 
   send to pingomatic.com as per options/writing)
    A simple solution is to alter
   the post-form-process by editing two lines in two php files. This will definitely
   make spam-comment-bot’s life uneasy 🙂 Bots tend to post data and not submit 
   a form, so… generate a unique name for author and email fieldnames which get 
   checked at post time. wp-comments-post.php (version 1.3 around line 20) change
   the fieldnames ` // we made unique field names in the form. $authorfieldname 
   = md5( date('ymdh') . DB_USER ); $emailfieldname = md5( date('ymdh') . DB_USER.'
   M'); $author = trim(strip_tags($_POST[$authorfieldname])); $email = trim(strip_tags(
   $_POST[$emailfieldname]));  in wp-comments.php (version 1.3 around line 39)  
   <?php // ANTI SPAMBOT HACK, VERSION: BRUTE-FORCE 1.0 // make unique fieldnames.
   checked in wp-comments-post.php // comment within the hour :-) $authorfieldname
   = md5( date('ymdh') . DB_USER ); $emailfieldname = md5( date('ymdh') . DB_USER.'
   M'); ?>  in the html form substitue author and email fieldname with”  <input 
   type="text" name="<?php echo $authorfieldname;?> id="author" and further down
   <input type="text" name="<?php echo $emailfieldname;?> id="email"  This way every
   blog (by means of md5 hash of DB_USER) has a unique identifier and blatantly 
   posting data to wp-comments-post.php without the correct fieldnames results in
   nothing 🙂 I hate this spam-o-matic-bots hitting an, even un-announced, blog.
   I made this hack because i didn’t think this even can be done with a plugin. 
   This can be made more robust with session cookie (not preferred) or with a javascript-
   generated-hidden-tag-on-post. When possible i would like to see this in 1.3stable
   Success WP team… Tr909

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 *  [charle97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charle97/)
 * (@charle97)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/#post-112628)
 * i don’t want this in 1.3.
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/#post-112630)
 * A solution to the “pre-spamming” was previously announced by the lead developer.
   Hacks like this, while they can work, unnecessarily add to the task of maintaining
   a site. For things not merged into the core, plugins are the best best for convenience
   and simplicity.
 *  Thread Starter [tr909](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tr909/)
 * (@tr909)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/#post-112633)
 * coveniance and simplicity for the end user? i don’t know but i guess this rotating
   form-field-name isn’t easily implemented with a plugin. Also i think that some
   plugins more or less add to execution time while their functionality is very 
   basic to the wp system.
 *  [charle97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charle97/)
 * (@charle97)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/#post-112634)
 * you must have a crappy server.
    allusion created a plugin that does something
   similar in that it adds an encrypted formkey to the comment form.

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 * Last reply from: [charle97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charle97/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-solution1/#post-112634)
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