Tired of people putting junk URLs into your Wordpress comments? Why not just remove the URL field and give them one less avenue for spamming your site 
It’s fairly easy and only requires you to edit one file.
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This isn’t so much a how-to, as it is a tip for anyone running a website. One of the great things about open-source software such as Wordpress or Joomla, is that you can often find free plugins or themes for them. The danger here lies in hidden spam links (so-called “SEO” plugins are notorious for this) that are deep in the code – and unless you know where to look, you’re out of luck.
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Holy cow, Batman! I’m so grateful I’m using WP Hashcash – I can’t imagine having to manually delete all the crap that comes through this blog. In the 2 months I’ve had this blog running, I’ve received over 100 attempted spam comments. Luckily, WP Hashcash is able to catch them and prevent them from getting approved, without interfering with real commenters I suppose spam is inevitable in this day and age, but even I was surprised at the speed in which those bots found my little site.
Anyone using WordPress, especially on a popular (or high Google PageRank) site knows that spammers love to use the comment section to peddle whatever crap they’re selling. If you don’t want to be a free medium for advertisements, you either have to stay on top of the comments constantly, or install a plugin to help manage the problem.