Opened for comments (again)

I have opened for comments on the blog again! The comment option was closed a year ago after having received a couple of hundred thousand comments in a couple of days. Now I have updated to the latest version of WordPress, and have activated new spam filters. Hopefully, this can keep the spam out this time. At least it is worth a try. Happy commenting!

August 9, 2010 · 1 min · 65 words · ARJ

Deleting spam comments in WordPress

About 6 months ago I had a serious spam attack here in my blog, and received more than 60 000 spam comments in a few days. For that reason I decided to turn off the option to comment on blogs, but I never managed to get rid of all the comments that was already in my system. The WordPress admin system only allows for deleting 20 comments at a time, so that didn’t seem like the way to go. ...

June 22, 2009 · 2 min · 224 words · ARJ