Counting your top WordPress comment spam source IPs and URLs

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I launched a new WordPress blog for a client a few months ago and have been watching as comment spammers find the site and do what they do best, leave spam. As the first few spam comments started coming in I would flag them then manually copy/paste the source IPs and URLs to the built-in WordPress “Comment Blacklist“.

Over time I obviously started seeing some duplicates and I noticed bursts of spam from certain IPs or linking to specific spam URLs. I was curious to see what these top IPs and URLs were, as they would seem the best candidates to include in the blacklist.

So, let’s dig around in the database a bit…

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