Well, Participants Database doesn’t offer the kind of control you’d need for a commenting system. There’s no easy way to block spam, other than to use the “approved” checkbox to prevent comments that aren’t approved from getting shown, but of course, that will be a manual operation.
You could filter the rich text area value, but that’s kinda tricky if you’re allowing other tags.
Did you try reCaptcha? I have a free add-on that adds this to the signup form. That won’t block comments posted by human spammers, of course.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I’m already using reCaptcha but some “persistent humans” are taking the time manually add many entries on a daily basis. I presume they are trying to ride off our high page rank for strong backlink SEO for their spam sites. We don’t want to have an approval as that will impact visitor satisfaction.
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What do you mena by “filter the rich text area value”?
Thanks again!
OK, it is possible to filter the text in rich text areas using a filter called ‘pdb-rich_text_auto_formatting’ which passes in the unformatted content of the rich text field. You can apply a function such as wp_kses() to filter out specific tags, such as the anchor tags, which would remove the links from the text.
