Comments on: I killed trackbacks http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/ Thoughts on PHP, eBay, and too many technical topics for my family's liking. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Adam Trachtenberg http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1276 Adam Trachtenberg Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:57:57 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/#comment-1276 Thanks. Those pointers look good. However, at this point, I am wondering if I should wait for WP 2.0 before I continue hacking around? I don't mind waiting a little bit if it will save me porting time later on. Thanks. Those pointers look good.

However, at this point, I am wondering if I should wait for WP 2.0 before I continue hacking around? I don’t mind waiting a little bit if it will save me porting time later on.

]]> By: Matt http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1275 Matt Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:29:24 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/#comment-1275 You may also want to try out Akismet, the new anti-spam service. You may also want to try out Akismet, the new anti-spam service.

]]> By: Ben http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 Ben Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/#comment-1274 You can get a nice plugin to add Trackback and Pingback moderation here: http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/. You can get a nice plugin to add Trackback and Pingback moderation here: http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/.

]]> By: Adam Trachtenberg http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Adam Trachtenberg Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:29:31 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/#comment-1272 Ha! I don't have that problem, fortunately. It would be fine if I could force all trackbacks to be moderated. It isn't that much effort for me to bulk block them manually, but, unlike comments, they appear directly on the page. I guess the other solution is to patch WordPress to implement this, but killing trackbacks was a 5 minute fix. Ha! I don’t have that problem, fortunately.

It would be fine if I could force all trackbacks to be moderated. It isn’t that much effort for me to bulk block them manually, but, unlike comments, they appear directly on the page.

I guess the other solution is to patch WordPress to implement this, but killing trackbacks was a 5 minute fix.

]]> By: Jay Pipes http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Jay Pipes Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:02:41 +0000 http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/12/20/i-killed-trackbacks/#comment-1271 Hi Adam! I had the exact same problem a while back and ended up swapping Wordpress in favor of Serendipity, which has been OK so far... It turned out that the spammers figured out a way to post comment and trackback spam by inserting entries into the database *before* the entries were actually made, so that when I posted an entry, there were immediately dozens of spam comments already in the database attached to the entry. *Very* annoying. Don't know if that problem has been fixed in more recent versions, but I feel your pain... :) Cheers, Jay Hi Adam!

I had the exact same problem a while back and ended up swapping Wordpress in favor of Serendipity, which has been OK so far… It turned out that the spammers figured out a way to post comment and trackback spam by inserting entries into the database *before* the entries were actually made, so that when I posted an entry, there were immediately dozens of spam comments already in the database attached to the entry. *Very* annoying. Don’t know if that problem has been fixed in more recent versions, but I feel your pain… :)

Cheers,

Jay

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