Man, That sucks. Makes me glad my blog is small and inconsequential…
Comment by Greg — Saturday, April 30, 2024 @ 11:48 am
What gets me, on the WP blog I run, is that they can find a way to put through trackbacks even with trackbacks completely turned off. Now I have it all on absolute moderation, which because trackbacks in WP are treated as comments, gets everything. It takes that plus periodically renaming the file that handles comments, and the code that references it, to keep it at all modest. But I haven’t updated WP yet, and haven’t tried any plugins that might make a difference. Been busy enough for it to get marginal attention.
Comment by Jay — Saturday, April 30, 2024 @ 12:09 pm
I’ve found that they only attack old entries (I guess to get Google PageRank from entries that got links from elsewhere), so putting a 2-week limit on trackbacks seems to stop them.
Man, That sucks. Makes me glad my blog is small and inconsequential…
Comment by Greg — Saturday, April 30, 2024 @ 11:48 am
What gets me, on the WP blog I run, is that they can find a way to put through trackbacks even with trackbacks completely turned off. Now I have it all on absolute moderation, which because trackbacks in WP are treated as comments, gets everything. It takes that plus periodically renaming the file that handles comments, and the code that references it, to keep it at all modest. But I haven’t updated WP yet, and haven’t tried any plugins that might make a difference. Been busy enough for it to get marginal attention.
Comment by Jay — Saturday, April 30, 2024 @ 12:09 pm
I’ve found that they only attack old entries (I guess to get Google PageRank from entries that got links from elsewhere), so putting a 2-week limit on trackbacks seems to stop them.
Comment by Chris Lawrence — Saturday, April 30, 2024 @ 2:58 pm
Best I can tell, I can’t do that in WP
Comment by Steven Taylor — Sunday, May 1, 2024 @ 8:34 pm