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install akismet and captcha
anti-captcha works fine for me. no captcha, happy visitors.
I have it automatically repost it to tumblr. After 20 people are triggered, that poster gets flagged. After 200, I might look at it.
bestpractice2K18
All in one wordpress security,
rm -rf public_html/* public_html/.ht*
I've found Akismet is all that's needed. Have had several blogs stay clean for years. Of course you also need to set it to have the first comment approved. Use email notification if you want to avoid checking the blog comments frequently.
wp-spamshield has been very good for me
Just found out that WP-SpamShield was removed from wordpress.org and is no longer free. I don't like Akismet as you have to register with wordpress.org and I often install wordpress for clients and then they get all confused thinking they are hosted with wordpress.org.
For your entertainment have a read of this https://www.redsandmarketing.com/blog/real-reason-wp-spamshield-kicked-off-wordpress-org/
I personally avoid wp plugins like the pestilence they are. I have a simple script telling me the most active spammers and auto creating firewall rules. As for the rest, oh well, I delete them by hand; not much work really.
I put all comments containing links and/or from Russian IPs to manual review and so far so good.
Moderating all comments from non-whitelisted posters works ok for lots of people. Might be different if you have huge comment volume and can't delay comments from new posters.