Hi, as many of you know I love to use wordpress for almost everything. But, I am kind of embarrassed as I can not figure out how to stop people from posting on my site if their not registered. I've enabled a feature that stops that but someone I keep getting spammed by bots posting useless crap on the blog.

I've checked and can't figure this out. I have dealt with enough spam to know to enable "Approve all comments" option on the blog. I tried to post as a non member and I can't yet the bots can which is annoying me.

Any ideas?

Captcha system

I added one...The problem is their able to post as a non member. Even with captcha, I don't want that.

I found five methods to decrease spam comments

http://maketecheasier.com/5-ways-to-...ogs/2010/03/17

Thanks, I'll try some of these. Also, the first option I believe requires you pay now? Not sure, I installed it but didn't go through with it for a reason I can not remember. I used it a few months ago though with no problem.

But again, I'll give these a try. Thanks man!

Since you've been working with WordPress since a longtime, I'll assume that the Askimet plugin is activated and running well.

You may use a combination of tools and plugins to get rid of bots spamming your site(s). Install a trusted Captcha on your WordPress site. You may even try installing a a plug-in named "Bad Behavior", it should help you a great deal with stopping spams.

Alternatively, you may use Facebook Comments as it is rare to get spammed by someone on Facebook.

This might help you;

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

I personally use wp math comment plugin to avoid spam comments.

I installed askimet and WP-Ban and spam is pretty much gone.

Just looked at my Askimet stats - it's blocked over 14,000 spam comments so far.

Excellent tips, thanks for posting it!

I can't imagine you would need anything else besides the 5 tips in the link.

Also, I don't believe you have to pay for Akismet (maybe I'm wrong?).. I've never had to before, but I haven't used it in a while though (now I use recaptcha for my WP sites and it rocks!).

I thought so too HostLeet, but their process in which you sign up confused me a bit as before they had a link to the free sign up. Right now they all three plans together so I thought you had to pay.

But, it is still free to use.

Sorry for double post, but I got another problem now. I am trying to enable subscriptions on my blog and I can not find it anywhere. I Googled it and found the wordpress site link with the info but when I do what it says the info that should be there on my admin panel is not!

My blog doesn't have a subscription feature. Is this feature limited to blogs connected to wordpress.com? Mine is a self hosted blog so that might be the problem but not sure.

What kind of subscriptions you want enabled?

So that my readers are able to get updates when a new article has been posted. A friend of mine told me about Suscribe2 so am using that as of right now. Still testing it and stuff but it seems to function very well so I might use this instead of the wordpress version (which I still can't find)