I Found 70 Spam Comments on My Own Website This Morning π
Yes. Mine.
I build and fix websites for a living. And this morning I opened my own dashboard to find:
β 70 comments waiting for approval, almost all of them betting sites, adult links and βgreat post, admin!β bots.
β 16 plugins sitting there with updates waiting.
β Contact forms with zero spam protection.
Nothing was βbroken.β The site still loaded. Still looked fine.
Thatβs exactly the problem.
Most website problems donβt announce themselves. They build up quietly in the background while youβre 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Outdated plugins become security gaps.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 hereβs what I did:
β Updated every plugin (with backups first)
β Added a spam filter for comments
β Added hidden spam protection to every form
β Cleared out the 70 spam comments
Less than an hour. But only because I actually looked.
A website isnβt something you launch and forget.
Itβs more like a car. It runs fineβ¦ until the day it doesnβt.
Quick question: When was the last time you logged into your websiteβs dashboard? π
If the honest answer is βI donβt remember,β send me a message. Iβll take a look.