Have you been seeing a large increase in the amount of spam comments on your blog?
I sure have…, and I’ve taken temporary action to limit it.
I went to the discussion link under Settings on the WordPress dashboard.
Once there, I enabled the option to automatically close comments and, for now, I’m setting the time period to 4 days. After a post has been up for 4 days, comment will be closed.
I had had this option set for a long time to limit the amount of spam, but, for some reason, a few weeks back, I had disabled it.
Hopefully, this surge of spam will fall to more normal levels and I will reset the period that comments are open to a somewhat longer duration.
