Title: WordPress NEEDS more security! Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # WordPress NEEDS more security! * [tianjinuniversal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tianjinuniversalgmailcom/) * (@tianjinuniversalgmailcom) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/) * I am getting very upset since this is supposed to be the BEST wordpress. I have a new business site coming out and I can’t use wordpress unless some changes are made!!! Maybe I am not using it right, but let me explain my problems and you all can make changes or tell me how I can fix it. PLEASE!!!???? * My old site that I do not use anymore blog.adreamforabetterworld.com has the following SERIOUS problems. * 1) I have 1589 users (most garbage) – can only show a few rows at a time – no way to sort users by number of articles/comments – so I can’t easily get rid of spammers. * 2) I have Pending (143,453) comments!!! How in the H E L L (sorry for my language) did I get so many pending comments when I use your antispam plugins? I had to change (I just made the change) “Automatically close comments on articles older than” from 0 to 1. I don’t want to do that for my new website! But, there has to be a better way to fight spam! * 3) I am looking at the page [http://blog.adreamforabetterworld.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php](http://blog.adreamforabetterworld.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php) First author that shows up is cell phone numbers find-cellphonenumbers.com 67.190.116.31 Then I go to [http://blog.adreamforabetterworld.com/wp-admin/users.php](http://blog.adreamforabetterworld.com/wp-admin/users.php) and search for “cell phone numbers” and get 0 results. * I need to be able to see how many comments/posts each person has and order by that number so I can delete them and all their comments/posts if they are bad. How can I when I can’t even find them and they just posted a few hours ago. * 4) No way to turn off ALL comments. (I don’t want to do this for new forum) But I did turn off after 1 day (since I don’t use anymore it worked) but should be able to turn off all comments. * Please help us to fight spam!!! Give us EVERY possible means to stop it! That includes REMOVING it if they were successful in getting in! (Very important! Seems you all forgot that part). * PLEASE HELP!!!! * Thank you, Markis Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883762) * Are you really running WP2.9.2? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883765) * That’s a MAJOR security risk in and of itself. Get it updated. Then use [Akismet](http://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/) and [Cookies for Comments](http://wordpress.org/plugins/cookies-for-comments/) plugins. * Also try: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-pending-comments/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-pending-comments/) * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-all-comments/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-all-comments/) * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/) * Thread Starter [tianjinuniversal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tianjinuniversalgmailcom/) * (@tianjinuniversalgmailcom) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883786) * I am using 3.5.2 not 2.9.2 * [webvitalii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webvitaly/) * (@webvitaly) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883788) * What spam plugins did you used? * You may try [**anti-spam plugin**](http://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/). * Anti-spam plugin will stop future spam. * Or you may try some other [anti-spam plugins](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=anti+spam). * [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/) * (@mrmist) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883800) * Unless you really need them, you can turn off the option to allow everyone to register users from your settings page. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883815) * 4) Navigate to Settings -> Discussion and uncheck “Allow people to post comments on new articles”. You might also want to have a look at [http://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-control/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-control/) if you have a lot of published Post/Pages with comments active. * [jerrybell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerrybell/) * (@jerrybell) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883972) * Markis, * I had the same problem you did, and these other suggestions were only moderately helpful. The only thing I found that helped is a plugin called ‘Stop Forum Spammer Registration’. Install that and get it configured and you shouldn’t have many more problems. You will have your hands full deleting the existing accounts and pending comments. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘WordPress NEEDS more security!’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 7 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [jerrybell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerrybell/) * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-more-security/#post-3883972) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics