Antispam Bee Settings for Comment Spam Protection

See how to configure the free Antispam Bee plugin to protect your WordPress site from comment spam.

Video Tutorial

Here are the countries that I typically allow. If you need more, add their 2-letter country code.

AU, CA, GB, US, IN, IE,

Written Tutorial

Read through the instructions on how to configure Antispam Bee.

Install the Antispam Bee Plugin

Let me show you a trick for quickly installing this plugin.

Go to Plugins > Add New.

At the top, click the Favorites tab.

Type in blogaid, all lower case, and then click the Get Favorites button.

This is a list of my favorite free plugins.

Find Antispam Bee near the top of the list and click Install Now and then Activate.

Configure Antispam Bee Filter

Go to Settings > Antispam Bee.

In the first column for Antispam Filter, leave all of the checkmarks at the default, as shown here.

Country Codes

Then scroll down to the bottom of that column and check the box to turn on Block or allow comments from specific countries.

In the Allowed field at the bottom, input the two letter country code for the countries you want to allow to make comments on your site.

Since my primary audience is from English speaking countries, this is the short list I use.

You need to put a comma and a space between each of the two-letter country codes, and you need to have a comma at the end of the last country.

Here are the countries that I typically allow. If you need more, add their 2-letter country code.

AU, CA, GB, US, IN, IE,

Languages

Check the box in the last field for Allow comments only in certain languages.

And then click on the languages you want to allow.

I set mine to English.

Configure Antispam Bee Advanced Settings

Scroll back up to the top.

And let’s look at the settings in the Advanced column.

For Mark as spam, do not delete, you may want to leave this checked for the first week or so after you install this plugin.

Be sure to check your spam regularly to see if any of them are legit comments and approve them.

After a week or so, if you are seeing that they are all spam, then return to this settings page and uncheck this box so that the plugin simply deletes spam comments right away instead of holding them in your database.

Once you uncheck that box, you will not see most of the rest of these options listed in the Advanced section.

I’m going to turn it back on so we can see it.

I generally leave off all the rest of the settings options here except for the last one in this column, which is to Delete Antispam Bee data when uninstalling.

Configure Antispam Bee More Options

Let’s scroll up to see the third column for More options.

I generally leave these off.

Save Antispam Bee Settings

Scroll down to the bottom of the third column and click the Save Changes button.

Now you’re all set for protecting your site from comment spam.

Once in a while a spam comment will get through to the site, but I find that most are at least held for moderation.

And I find this free plugin works just as well as paid comment spam filter plugins. So one getting through now and then is not a problem.

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