Fighting WordPress TrackBack Spam

Jul 30, 2008 Print This Post

I have been getting slammed lately with TrackBack Spam. In part, my redesign was prompted by cleaning up the site after getting hit one too many times.

Hopefully, I now have it under control thanks to BloggingTips.com.

Here are the steps I took for those of you having the same problem:

1. Renamed wp-comments-post.php file, which is in the the root of all WordPress installations
2. Opened comments.php in my theme folder (wp-content/THEME FOLDER) and changed the “wp-comments-post.php” file name to my new name.

That’s it. Hopefully it works.

If you would like to comment on this post, please do so over on Facebook. You can find my blog posts imported into the "Notes" section. Sorry if this inconveniences you or if you don't use Facebook, it just helps me have a single place for dialog.

3 Responses to “Fighting WordPress TrackBack Spam”

  1. How To Code Php Says:

    August 1st, 2008 at 11:52 am

    anybody here know of a good site to find more info on how to code php? I’ve got this site bookmarked and im gonna keep checking it out, but i still would like to find a site that covers how to code php a little more thoroughly..thanks


  2. Jim Spence Says:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    Saturday I was searching for Blogs related to email topics but more specifically to email search. I found your blog and find it intersting.


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