Title: Bad Comments Author: Stefan Chitic Published: September 7, 2010 Last modified: September 7, 2010 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/bad-comments.svg) # Bad Comments By [Stefan Chitic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schitic/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bad-comments.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/) ## Description This plugin will automatically search in a database if a user that posted a comment on your blog has already had a bad behavior regarding the comments, and will alert you about this. Evenmore you can read those comments by visting the website. ### We dislike malicious comments Who likes them? You have better things to do in your life instead of getting stressed by people who don’t want nothing else but to make you nervous.Bad comments is a project that will help you get rid of all those malicious comments.Even more,Bad comments can be used also as a anti spam protection, and so you will never have to worry again about cleaning up your comments list from your website. ### Bad comments is free for general use Because there is a general need in the blogosphere for preventing malicious comments and spam, as much as possible, we’ve decided to make Bad comments free. After downloading the plugin, you can use it without a API key ( equals non power user – see [api key details](http://badcomments.chitic.eu/getkey/)) or using the [free API key ](http://badcomments.chitic.eu/getkey/0/) ( equals 0 power user ). ### Specific use For more specific use of the plugin like daily update of old posts, the ability of reading the malicious comments from the database to see what, where, when, why a user said something bad and most important to whom, you will need a more powerful [api key](http://badcomments.chitic.eu/getkey/). To get this kind of key, you will need to donate. All the donations are to support the coding team and to support the servers that are running the Bad coments database. ## Screenshots * [[ * Plugin Settings Page * [[ * Comments Admin Page ## Installation 1. Download plugin and unzip. 2. Upload the plugin file to your WordPress plugins directory inside of wp-content. 3. Activate it from the plugins menu inside of WordPress. 4. Enter your API key. 5. Forget that spam was ever a problem. ## FAQ How does it work? When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to our web service which runs tests on the comment and returns if the comment is malicious or not. Do I have to maintain a blacklist? Yes and no. The baisic idea of our system is to create a centralized database using multiple descentralized tables. In other word, you will keep only the grade for you comments. To evaluate your comments you will use our database in an automatically way. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dcc48e9c96c9ee54c358ad65a85e30e4c1777d8dd7111bcb16255962c2df165d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Why?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-96/)󠁿 [Jakours2](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakours2/) October 30, 2024 Why this plugin is still available here, 14 years old, soon 15. [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Bad Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Stefan Chitic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schitic/) [Translate “Bad Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bad-comments) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bad-comments/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bad-comments/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bad-comments/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bad-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.0 * First version. Starting from 2.0 because 1.0 was the beta version ## Meta * Version **v 2.0** * Last updated **16 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.0.5** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/) * Tags * [comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[spam](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/bad-comments/advanced/) ## Ratings 1 out of 5 stars. * [ 0 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Stefan Chitic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schitic/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bad-comments/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://badcomments.chitic.eu)