WP Spam Hitman (v0.7) is a simple plugin for WordPress blogging system that helps fighting with spam.

It uses words/regular expressions and simple hit points system to recognize spam comments.

Download

Download the newest version (v0.7)

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Changes

• 0.7
  • [fixed] bug – spammers message is not changable
  • [change] spammers message is not less offensive by default
  • [add] some ‘%tags%’ can be used inside spammers message to include comment’s information

• 0.6
  • [fixed] bug – displays message for every comment when mode set to moderate/mark as spam
  • [add] version number displayed in options
  • [add] version checking (if server allows it) – it checks if you have the latest version of the plugin and if not – provides you with an information and link to the newest version

How does it work?

Sometimes you get some comments which from very beginning you know they are spam. It is because spam bots used certain words inside them and in many cases – a lot of those words. You can’t ban then entirely because some of real people still use those words – maybe not in that amount – but still. Here where WP Spam Hitman comes in. It allows you to write as many words or regular expressions you want and set a number from which you are pretty sure that some comment is a spam.

Then it checks every comment/trackback/pingback and count how many hit point that comment gets (so for instance – how many usually-spam words it contains). If a comment gets enough of those hits – certain action will be performed.

You can simply delete the message and never think about it again. You can also mark it as spam or throw it into moderation.

Are my normal visitors are safe?

Well – it depends – but if you use this plugin right – there comments are safe.

First of all – if you don’t trust this plugin or yourself enough – you can throw all those comments to moderation and read all comments before you will delete them.

Second of all – if you have regular visitors – like your friends you can choose option to skip checking comments of aproved visitors so whey will always apear on your blog.

Of course – with a little more knowlage you can set good list of rules and save number of hits so that only spam comments will be deleted.

Installation

1. Download the latest version of WP Spam Hitman
2. Unzip it
3. Upload wp-spam-hitman directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
5. Set up some options on Options -> WP Spam Hitman section of admin panel