Do you use a plugin for IP banning spammers in WP?

[vincent]

Do you use a plugin to IP ban spammers on your WordPress sites?

[Matt]

Askimet to a degree. Though, to be honest, IP bans are largely ineffective because one could just change their IP immediately. Ex. I have a button on my modem that instantly changes my IP address when pushed. It can go from something in the 74.*.*.* range to something in the 96.*.*.* or even higher.

[vincent]

The same Russian spam bot signs up on one of my sites like every week. I get them email then just delete him.

Username: partsunker
Email: [email protected]

It just joined again, it never does it twice in two days :O

[Sumeet Chawla]

and mostly many people have dynamic IP addresses which changes everytime you reconnect your web. I also have it, I think :shock: Gosh, I never checked lol

There must be other ways to stop that kind of a spam.. Just google for it ;)

[Chris Coyier]

For the record, there is IP blacklisting built into WordPress. No need for a plugin.

[vincent]

I know where the place is to blacklist comments and stuff… but, how do you get the IP of the spammer? The one that keeps registering on one of my sites hasn’t got a chance to comment or anything because I delete it like instantly.

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