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WordPress author email blacklist patch
By admin | August 29, 2008
If you’ve ever needed to block a single comment spammer using multiple IPs, referrers and urls, but the same email, here’s a patch for WordPress 2.5. This patch is released under the GNU General Public License.
Add the following code to wp-comments-post.php after the line “$comment_content = trim($_POST[‘comment’]);” (line 30 on v2.5):
// ****** Start of comment email patch by Compdigitec ******
$name = 'comment_author_email_blacklist.txt';
$blacklist_email = ''; // ** You can change the above blacklist file
$flag = true;
if(file_exists($name) && is_readable($name)) {
$ble = trim(file_get_contents($name));
$blacklist_email = explode("\n",$ble);
foreach($blacklist_email as $value) {
if($comment_author_email == $value) {
$flag = false;
}
}
if($flag === false) {
wp_die(__('Sorry, you are on our spam blacklist and therefore can not post comments.'));
}
} else {
// Not readable.
echo __("<!-- Warning: Comment Email Blacklist could not be read. -->");
}
// ****** End of comment email patch by Compdigitec ******
Next, create a file called comment_author_email_blacklist.txt (or your custom filename if you changed it above). In the file, add your email addresses to blacklist, one per line. Don’t forget to add testblacklist@example.com to test it.
If the patch has been installed, log out if you are logged in as the site admin. Then go to any post and try to post a comment (make sure there is some content, even if it is nonsense) with the email as “testblacklist@example.com” (without the quotes). You should be confronted with the following dialog:
If you do, congratulations! You have successfully installed the WordPress author email patch by Compdigitec. You can now proceed to adding more blacklist emails to your blacklist.
Troubleshooting
- “<!– Warning: Comment Email Blacklist could not be read. –>” appears when you view the source every time you post a comment. Self-explaining – you need to create your blacklist file or make your blacklist file readable.
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Topics: Internet | 4 Comments »
August 29th, 2008 at 19:12
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August 18th, 2009 at 17:21
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! really nice post.
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