Today, I received the dreaded email that notifies me of a comment awaiting for moderation on a site where WordPress is used as an opt-in page nothing more. Needless to say this type of site is not one I’m in daily or monthly, sometimes not even in 6 months.

I know many people use WordPress like that and it’s great because it is so versatile and there are such wonderfully easy plugins like MarketerCMS and WPSalesletter that make it incredibly easy to put up an attractive, effective opt-in page(s).

Unfortunately as I mentioned in my interview with Kelly on Detoxing Your Blog, this is also this type of sites have a huge potential to leave security holes and be spam bait because they aren’t in the forefront of our minds. So save yourself some time. If you’re building an opt-in where you know you will unlikely review the page regularly, get rid of obvious spam baits before you finish the project.

• Delete, trash or un-publish the Hello World post
• Close all comments and trackbacks
• Check individual posts to disable comments and trackbacks
• If you’re a bit more techie and truly will never need comments, nor trackbacks either rename or remove the wp-comments-post.php or wp-trackback.php