Banning by name on WP

[agentmanningctu]

I have a SpamBot that changes its IP but uses the same name.

Is there a plugin or setting I can use to ban by name?

 

[DirTek]

I don't know if you can ban them, but you could try adding the bot's name to the blacklist.

Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion

There you should see the Comment Blacklist.

Beware though, because it will match inside words.

For example, if you add "press" to the list, an user with the name "Wordpress" will also be blocked by the blacklist.


Cheers :great:

 

[agentmanningctu]

Thanks, that did work for one bot. Unfortunately, one bot keeps coming back using proxies. It has the same name as before, which I blacklisted.

 

[froggyboy604]

Have you tried using http://akismet.com/ and http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress- ... tcha-free/ to stop spambots?

 

[agentmanningctu]

I use akismet. I don't really want to put in a Captcha. It makes things harder for real people.

 

[froggyboy604]

Actually, Captcha-free is invisible. It just verifies if the browser the poster is using has a "time-based hash (a.k.a. Time Based Tokens, TBT) and JavaScript (AJAX)" capable since most spambots are not capable of viewing captcha.

If the commenter does not have a time based hash or a javascript capable browser, they can't post and are most likely spammers.