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Block Russian Comment Spam In Wordpress

This one goes out to all fellow bloggers!

If you are running a Wordpress blog, chances are you have received comments like:

Блог в ридер однозначно

And many, many, maaaaany others alike. I read of a blogger who went on vacation and had thousands of these when he returned. Great!

Now. I really tried, and really hard. I refreshed my whole dusty long-forgotten knowledge of Russian language (don`t ask), but I got nowhere. It didn`t make much sense, and it all seemed irrelevant. We even tried responding to these, asking those writers to go to school and at least try to learn English…no success, their email addresses do not exist.

And so we learn it is yet another version of spam! Great, just what we wanted!

Anyways, the solution took us 17.54 seconds. Or around that (Here I am making fun of all those people who are trying to sell you something “amazing” that made them 31.345 dollars and 76 cents in three weeks – Can`t they just round up those numbers??? Veeeeery annoying…).

Just go to your Wordpress blog control panel and go to SETTINGS/DISCUSSION and enter “.ru” in the COMMENT BLACKLIST. This will block all comments that contain .ru in the website URL, IP address or email. JOB DONE!

We only hope this won`t block all our Russian friends!

Happy blogging!

Monika and Tibor