In the Admin area, navigate to Settings > Discussion.

Here is a screenshot of our minimum recommended settings:

Additionally, you can check the boxes under “Before a comment appears” to moderate comments further. Checking “An administrator must always approve the comment” requires every comment to be held in moderation until you approve it.

Checking “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” allows you to approve a comment author’s first comment, and then automatically approve all future comments from that author.

The most effective setting change is to lower the “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains __ or more links” from 2 to 1. Most spam bots post links inside the content of their comment. Most commenters do not.

More information can be found in the WordPress Codex.

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