Wordpress : how to cut down on the amount of Spam Emails I'm recieving

Its been mentioned by a client that they are fed up of receiving too many emails regarding posts that turn out to be spam.

There's a couple of things I've done which now seem to have rectified the problem .

Firstly to add Repcaptcha Plugin WP Recaptcha

Secondly to tweak the settings for spam notifications can be found at.

Settings ( on the left menu ) > Discussion >

Then in the main screen in 'Email me whenever'  1. Anyone posts a comment ; 2. A comment is held for moderation

If you untick these then you won't receive any emails.  The thing is then is if there are any genuine posts you won't be notified.

The one section that will help is the 'Comment Blacklist'   - after googling 'Wordpress Comment Blacklist Suggestions' I've come up with this list as a starting point.  It's worth adding recommended IPs and emails to blacklist for spam; but I'll leave that to another post.


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Please check Wordpress Comment Blacklist blog for a more comprehensive list.