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„... another popular solution to fight spam is Antispam Bee“ – Matt Mullenweg, Q&A WordCamp Europe 2014
https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/
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Check if honeypot injection worked to avoid marking everything as spam #544

Closed Zodiac1978 closed 2 days ago

Zodiac1978 commented 1 year ago

From the ssupport forums:

Like others, I have experienced an issue where all comments are being marked as “honeypot”. I did not realize the issue right away as my site rarely gets valid comments, but I do receive a lot of actual spam. What fixed my problem was selecting “Check complete site markup for comment forms” checkbox under More / Various Options under settings.

Possibly because my site uses an older theme and the comment code isn’t in the expected location, the hook “comment_form_field_comment” / prepare_comment_field method wasn’t getting triggered. This means the comment textarea wasn’t getting rewritten with the honeypot form field.

When comments are submitted, the Antispam Bee code always assumes that the honeypot form field has been created and and in cases where this isn’t the case, the code will always detect a comment as spam. It would be nice if code could be added to detect whether the honeypot form field was successfully created, and then the honeypot spam detection could be conditional on this.

Zodiac1978 commented 2 days ago

Closing due to missing activity.