Posted by admin in I’ve found a new plugin that will help me to continue blocking comment spam on my blogs, and make using the D-list and do follow plugin a little easier.
Delink Comment Author is a new plugin that makes removing a URL from a comment a one click process. Sometimes, the comments I get are horrible, and it’s completely obvious that they’ve been left to take advantage of my dofollow links. Other times, it’s more a gray area – a great comment, but a link to a mortgage site, or a dog training school. Up til now, I’d been editing the URL’s out of those comments so that I could approve the comment but not give a link back to a site that isn’t a blog. It was a 5 step process that consisted of going to the comment, clicking edit, clicking into the URL field, removing the URL, and saving the comment.
This new plugin allows you to just click a link and the URL will be stripped from the comment.
In general, my comment policy is to allow comments with URL’s listed, as long as those belong to blogs. My comments aren’t the place to promote your non-blog business website.
What a neat plug-in. I’m going to give it a try! Thanks for posting that.
I’m going to go download it now. This is the kind of plugin that it totally worth a few minutes to install.
Wow, I get thousands of spam comments from bots, if I didn’t have spam karma or akismet nuking them constantly I’d jump off a bridge (Or more likely, switch commenting off)
Very occasionally I get a spam comment that is grey area enough that I just delete the link.
Nice find, Colleen. I’ve actually been on the look out for some decent comment anti-spam plugins recently and I could never find anything that suited my needs. I’ll definitely look into this though. Cheers.
Steve
Yea I have been getting some easy comments ever since I put myself on the dofollow list.
I am thinking of putting the Link Love plugin where I can specify the number of comments at a minimum that a commenter has to have before they get a link back.
There is also a dofollow trackback plugin. I found out about recently too.
Comments even if crappy make your blog seem like its active and liked!
I just ran into this exact issue today. A nice comment turned out to be a link to an iffy website. As a new user to Wordpress I’m constantly impressed at the quality of third-party plug-ins so I’m off to install this.
Thanks very much for sharing!
-Josh