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A Cool Little WordPress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers

A Cool Little WordPress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers

If you own a WordPress powered website you will most surely have Askimet enabled to help detect and easily manage spammers from posting comments. Askimet is a great plugin that has worked pretty successfully for me on all wordrpess sites that I own or administer. This little wordpress comment hack adds another layer of protection though by looking for the HTTP referrer (the page where the request comes from) and automatically blocks the comment if the referrer is incorrect or not defined.

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