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Magento – Review Spam – Only registered customers can leave a review

By November 18, 2015January 4th, 2016One Comment

Magento product reviews are often littered with spam comments, filling up the database with lots of pending reviews. One quick way to combat this is to only allow registered users to post reviews, disabling it for guests.

Magento - review spam

Allow guests to write reviews – No

Within your Magento Admin find;

System -> Configuration -> (Catalogue) Catalogue -> Product Reviews -> Allow guests to write reviews -> No

Magento - allow guests to write reviews

Persistent spammers could still register to add a review, but it should greatly reduce the number of pending spam reviews in your Magento store.

Magento Review Spam

This simple config change greatly reduced the amount of spam received and was more effective than an anti spam plugin that the client had previously used. Let me know your experiences in the comments.

 

 

Andrew Taylor

A senior UI designer with over 25 years of web design and web development experience working for some of the largest companies in the UK. An expert in all things Magento and WordPress.

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