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  • May 26, 2022 at 2:56 am #1353000
    beverlystone

    I have a page for which I accidentally left the comment box checked but no comment form was visible on the public facing website. Recently someone submitted a comment and I cannot figure how that could happen if no comment form was visible. I hope you can make sense of how this could have happened.

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    May 26, 2022 at 8:45 am #1353022
    Ismael

    Hey beverlystone,

    Thank you for the inquiry.

    Are you using the Advance Layout Builder (ALB) for your posts? If yes, then you have to manually insert the Comments element from the ALB in order to display the comments form.

    This documentation might help.

    // https://wordpress.com/support/comments/

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    May 26, 2022 at 12:37 pm #1353047
    beverlystone

    I think you are not understanding the issue. It was a page, not a post. I don’t want comments. A comment form wasn’t visible but somehow someone submitted a comment.

    KEY QUESTION: How could someone have submitted a comment when there is no visible comment form?

    May 27, 2022 at 2:29 pm #1353159
    Mike

    Hi,
    I assume that the comment was clearly spam, which was probably created with a comment spam script that just tries known WordPress comment URLs randomly so it doesn’t matter if the form is visible or not, this is a WordPress loophole that is the reason they created Akismet and auto install it on every WordPress site.
    For example here is a price list for a spammer that will post 20k comments for $34:
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    you can be sure that his software will do this in about 10 mins.
    If you don’t want any comments I recommend the plugin Disable Comments
    If you want to allow comments on some posts you should manually approve all comments with the setting at WordPress ▸ Settings ▸ Discussion ▸ Before a comment appears ▸ Comment must be manually approved

    Best regards,
    Mike

    May 27, 2022 at 3:18 pm #1353167
    beverlystone

    That helps. I never knew how spammers did this.

    Oddly, it was a comment from a legitimate source. I think I will follow up with them.

    Thank you! I may or may not have more questions but you’ve given me enough now to investigate further.

    May 27, 2022 at 3:33 pm #1353171
    Mike

    Hi,
    Glad to help, please let us know when we can close this thread.

    Best regards,
    Mike

    May 27, 2022 at 4:22 pm #1353177
    beverlystone

    Go ahead and close the thread. Thank you. I think I have everything I need.

    May 27, 2022 at 6:01 pm #1353186
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for letting us know, I’ll close this thread for now then. Please open a new thread if you should have any further questions or problems.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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