The more suitable title for this article I think would be “How to remove URL/Website box from comment form in WordPress” or “How to fight spam in comments of WordPress CMS”

Most of spam posts relied on URLs that they could put in the post itself and in the URL/Website field of comment form, so the user’s name would become link too.

So the first thing that came to my mind was to disable that URL/Website box in comment form. After googling around for 5 mins I found solutions how to do that but most of them were for WordPress’s default theme which made it a little complicated for me because I’m not using default theme. But it would be still comments.php file in your current theme. However most of the solutions included either function: comment_author_url() or variable: $comment_author_url. Quick Function lookup from Documentation which is built in WordPress, makes it very easy

And from the description I understand that this is the function that I need to comment out in the whole comments.php file and I found 2 places where this function or variable is used. So I just commented them with HTML comment tag <!– …. –>

The second thing what I did was to allow post comments to anyone but hold only those comments that contain even 1 URL.

I understand that this not the best solution but still will work to some extent. And it was really quick and easy to implement. Also I’m very new to WordPress CMS, still gotta learn a lot.

If someone could suggest me any video course/CBT(Computer Based Training) that they think it’s worth watching I would really appreciate that help.

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This Article is also available in Russian.

Today I decided that I need to learn how to make custom forms in Joomla. Long before this day I searched and found BreezingForms written by Markus Bopp at http://www.crosstec.de
Even though right now it is commercial, until version 1.6.0(version 1.5.9 I guess the most popular) it was under GPL license and still can be downloaded from his website, however I had hard time finding direct link, so google’s “site:crosstec.de 1.5.9 Stable” search helped me very much))). It seems easy to understand and construct your own form in Easy Mode after watching series of videos posted by Markus Bopp himself about “How to use BreezingForms” in EasyMode in version 1.5.9 Stable.

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You have only to write post, tagging each language:

eg. [ de ]Deutsch[ /de ] [ en ]English[ /en ]

which I understood as adding new tags to “post tags” that was WRONG. The only drawback I found so far is that Title of the post will always be in default language in my case it’s English but it’s no big deal. So from now on I will try to post my blog in 2 language: English and Russian))).

Also made I small discovery for myself is when searching for plugin in WordPress.org it’s better to sort by “Most Popular” instead of default “Relevance”. Just a quick reminder for me in future!!!

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PS: Well begun is half done!!!

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