Hi LET, I am having an issue with my WordPress blog and comment spam. I've installed and am using Disqus for comments, and have checked the box in WordPress Dashboard>Settings>Discussion to only allow comments from registered users (and stopped registrations), but somehow I still get a ton of spam comments in the default WordPress comments moderation queue (the Disqus comments are clean). What the heck is going on--the spammers should not even be able to submit comments to the standard WordPress comment form much less bombard me with spam to moderate as they can't register and only registered users should be allowed to post.
Is there a way, or something I'm missing, to completely lock out the standard WordPress commenting and only allow Disqus comments?
EDIT Damn, clicking the checkboxes in Settings>Discussion to close old posts after 14 days and not allow comments on new articles closed the default WP comments but now the Disqus comments aren't showing up at all. After changing the Settings>Discussions checkboxes back to normal, WP comments are still closed on all posts and Disqus is also still missing. WTF is happening here? :( /Edit
EDIT 2: Okay, so I am able to go into edit a post/article and the allow comments check box is still cleared. Clicking it re-allows comments on that one post and Disqus comes back. That's good... but it seems WordPress was able to close all comments on all posts but is now stuck and even though the checkboxes in the settings are unchecked and comments should be open, on the individual posts the allow comments checkboxes are still cleared. I'm guessing that's a WP bug as I really should not have to go into hundreds of individual posts to click the allow comments box :(. Sigh. I guess that'll teach me for trying to get rid of all the comment spam that I shouldn't be getting in the first place!
http://verrytechnical.com is the site. Any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated!