I Found 70 Spam Comments on My Own Website This Morning š
Yes. Mine.
I build and fix websites for a living. And this morning I opened my own dashboard to find:
ā 70 comments waiting for approval, almost all of them betting sites, adult links and āgreat post, admin!ā bots.
ā 16 plugins sitting there with updates waiting.
ā Contact forms with zero spam protection.
Nothing was ābroken.ā The site still loaded. Still looked fine.
Thatās exactly the problem.
Most website problems donāt announce themselves. They build up quietly in the background while youāre busy running your business.
Outdated plugins become security gaps.
Spam comments make a site look abandoned.
Unprotected forms flood your inbox until you stop checking it, and miss the one real enquiry that mattered.
So hereās what I did:
ā Updated every plugin (with backups first)
ā Added a spam filter for comments
ā Added hidden spam protection to every form
ā Cleared out the 70 spam comments
Less than an hour. But only because I actually looked.
A website isnāt something you launch and forget.
Itās more like a car. It runs fine⦠until the day it doesnāt.
Quick question: When was the last time you logged into your websiteās dashboard? š
If the honest answer is āI donāt remember,ā send me a message. Iāll take a look.