I Found 70 Spam Comments on My Own Website This Morning 😅 Yes. Mine. I build and fix websites for a living. And this morning I opened my own dashboard to find: ❌ 70 comments waiting for approval, almost all of them betting sites, adult links and “great post, admin!” bots. ❌ 16 plugins sitting there with updates waiting. ❌ Contact forms with zero spam protection. Nothing was “broken.” The site still loaded. Still looked fine. That’s exactly the problem. Most website problems don’t announce themselves. They build up quietly in the background while you’re 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 Outdated plugins become security gaps.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 here’s what I did: ✔ Updated every plugin (with backups first) ✔ Added a spam filter for comments ✔ Added hidden spam protection to every form ✔ Cleared out the 70 spam comments Less than an hour. But only because I actually looked. A website isn’t something you launch and forget. It’s more like a car. It runs fine… until the day it doesn’t. Quick question: When was the last time you logged into your website’s dashboard? 👇 If the honest answer is “I don’t remember,” send me a message. I’ll take a look.

70 betting-site comments and the site still looked fine, that's the scary part, nothing visual flags maintenance debt