Yes, Akismet can be of huge help when fighting with comment spam, but it can’t help against the most sophisticated auto-commenting tools which make fake comments look very real.

These software have one thing in common though, a flaw which they share. They try to automatically post the comment data (name, email, URL, text) to the wp-comments-post.php file on your blog, which WordPress allows by default. There is a simple solution to avoid this and it’s htaccess.

Just paste this code below any existing content in your own .htaccess file at your WordPress installation:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*ephp.info.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

Replace ephp.info with your own domain name in the above code, though.

This should lower the work required by Akismet.

\[by [WpRecipes](http://www.wprecipes.com/reduce-spam-on-your-wordpress-blog-by-using-htaccess)\]


Stop WordPress Comment Spam

Sometimes you will get an error similar to this in PHP:

> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /index.php on line 36

This is most likely caused by a forgotten closing curly bracket (“}”).

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If you have a PHP code similar to this you will definitely get the above error:


Stop WordPress Comment Spam

How to Fix a “unexpected $end” Error