I seem to have created a spam trap, or, at least, most if it is falling into a black hole.<\/p>\n
My preferred spam tool was a Captcha tool that made you rotate an image and only when it was lined up could you post a comment.\u00a0 That stopped working and would not any comments through so I had to disable it.\u00a0 As soon as I did so, Woosh! the comment spam starts reappearing.<\/p>\n
Most of it gets created against one specific post, for some reason.\u00a0 Anyway, I had an idea.\u00a0 I created that post again and gave it a different permalink.\u00a0 A redirection\u00a0 from the old permalink to the new was automagically created by WordPress, although I have no idea how.<\/p>\n
Now the copy of the page appears but the original version does not.\u00a0 However, the spam is being posted to the original page; presumably because they are going direct to the \/id=nnn link rather than the permalink.<\/p>\n
Rather than delete the page and risk the spammers picking a new one to post their spam to, I’ll just leave it there.<\/p>\n
What I need now is a WordPress plugin that says “For any comment posted on this page, delete it and blacklist the IP address”.\u00a0 That would turn my spam black hole into a honeytrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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