Comment timeout

More than 90% of the traffic to this blog is merely spambots trying to post spam as comments and trackbacks. Akismet catches almost all of it, so I can mostly ignore it. However, that traffic places an undue burden on the server and clogs my access logs. Since there’s very little real commenting on this blog, I’ve decided to install the Comment Timeout plugin. This plugin will automatically close comments and trackbacks on old posts. I’ve set a timeout of 30 days, and we’ll see how that goes.

Tags: blog, Comment Timeout, spam, Website, wordpress