- Hey y'all, I'm Kori Ashton
and welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
Look no further.
Y'all, if you've been frustrated getting spam comments
in on your WordPress blog, let me tell you right now
I've got the free plugin that will help you fix all of it.
This won't address any of your forms that you have,
any of your contact forms that are getting spam.
That'll be another video.
I'll put that in the description box below
or right up here.
But this is a really great resource
if you're dealing with all those spam comments
coming in on your posts and hitting your inbox.
I'll show you how to block them
and disable them all right now, in the budget of free.
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All right, let's get started on the tutorial.
So if you come into your WordPress website
and this is what you see under comments,
you just see a ton of spam all the way down,
these can come in back to back to back
within the same minute, even.
A lot of my clients have had this battle with WordPress.
When they think about WordPress, they think about just spam
and how these actually end up in your inbox too.
It's very frustrating.
So if you're seeing a lot of comments like this,
this is going to be your solution for the fix
and it's gonna take you two clicks to get it done
after we install this plugin.
So I do wanna talk about a common plugin.
A lot of folks use Akismet.
It's an anti-spam plugin that is available
and you can use it in the budget of free as well.
There's obviously a paid version that you can use
so if you click on this, come in, go over,
you can check out the different prices
and of course, on the personal,
if it's a non-commercial site, you qualify
to use Akismet totally for free.
But if you are a business,
you should actually have to pay for this resource.
And, you know, you can get creative
with what you wanna pay for it.
They're really kind about that,
but again, if you're a commercial-based website,
which is the example I'm gonna show you today,
you would have to pay for this tool.
But what if we could totally stay in the budget of free?
Completely 100% free.
Let's go back over to your plugins area
and we're gonna do a search for disable comments.
And it's this one right here.
Over one million active installs, phenomenal reviews,
and it's been updated recently, right?
It's compatible with ours.
I'm gonna click Install and I'm going to click Activate.
Now that I have that in place, I can come over here.
The configuration page, up here at the top.
You see that little link?
All right, this is it, y'all, a couple of clicks here.
One click you can disable comments everywhere
on your entire website.
That's it, there's our one click,
but that definitely knocks 'em out across the board.
What if you just wanted them disabled on pages
or maybe on your media types?
You can do that and keep them active on your blog area
if you allowed for comments.
But this is a commercial site.
We don't need them anywhere.
So we're gonna go ahead and choose everywhere,
Save Changes.
That did it, that disables comments.
Now, to delete the existing comments that are here, right,
we just wanna be sure they're gone everywhere.
So you're gonna see it has a total comments of 145.
I want them gone.
Are you sure?
Yes, delete, be gone.
And it's magic, y'all.
They're gone.
You don't even see comments on the left side anymore.
It is literally disabled, gone from this website.
The pain in the toosh is over.
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