Posts Tagged ‘ Comment ’

Block Remote Comments on a WordPress site

2017/11/12
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Modified: 2017/11/05
Ban Remote Comments on a WordPress site

How to block remote comments on a WordPress site?   How indeed?   Here is a question for all of you – WordPress masters out there.   Right now I am a bit puzzled. Problem – Comments without Visits I am noticing that people are posting a spam comments in a very tricky way.  Somehow comments arrive with Site URL field populated, but I do not even have that field on the “Leave a Comment” form. It means that there is an automated way to send a comment without actually visiting the site.  Is it true?  I am searching all over the Internet right now. Looks like there is a product out there called CxxGxx. …

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WordPress Error 500 – Internal server error on Empty Comment

2017/05/17
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Modified: 2017/04/30
WordPress Error 500 – Internal server error on Empty Comment

Problem – Embarrassing Error 500 I am running latest Word Press 3.0.1 on IIS 7.0.  If visitor tries to leave an empty comment or forgets to enter name or email, an ugly 500 – Internal server error will appear on the screen.  This is extremely embarrassing for the host and for the site. I approximately know that I have three ways to approach this problem: – Disable error 500 on IIS side to allow WordPress to handle it; – Lower level of error generated in WordPress code (IIS will not catch it then) or – Write a local JavaScript to prevent user from posting with empty fields. Solution – One click in…

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