How to remove the Contact page safely

[WineMan]

Thank you so much eagleman for your help on this. I had not seen this option before and now that I have, I am going to try to have all comments approved before being displayed...hopefully that will slow down the spam. If that doesn't stop it, I can always delete it as you have described.

[fraenkiman]

Hello WineMan,

The conversational variant is to simply activate the following option for the relevant posts: "Block comments: Do not allow comments for this post."

I've looked at the possibility of not allowing url's in the comments but can't figure out how to do that. Thanks.

To block URLs/comments that contain URLs, you can use the QuickSpamFilter plugin. You can try adding the following three to the banned words:

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www
http
https

The number of forbidden words must be 1.

Otherwise, the plugins Accessible Antispam and the "Comment check with Akismet" in the Comment Center also do a very good job.

With best regards
Frank

[WineMan]

Thank you fraenkiman, I will try your QuickSpamFilter suggestion as well.

[WineMan]

With the help of a developer friend, this piece of code was added in comments.php file. In my case it was added beginning online 138

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if (preg_match("~href|http|[^\s\.]{2,10}\.[^\s\.]{2,30}\.[^\s\.]{2,10}~i",$content)) { //URL found (href | http | xxx.yyy.zzz))
		$errors ['content'] = 'URLs not allowed in comments - please remove it.';
	}

Seems to work if the spam commenter is there to add a URL.