It is always the ‘old’ stuff that gets you.
I thought I had done such a great job tightening up things and then seemed to get hit with some repetitive trackback spam notifications. Since the notifications are coming from one of MY websites, they don’t get marked easily as spam.
A few minutes of googling and a timely post at question-defence.com, published a few days ago pin pointed the problem (Many thanks to google for thier quick search index updating!.. remember the old days?)
Ping status = ‘open’
Many existing posts still had their ping status set to open. So to stop trackback spam in it’s tracks (ha! lqtm), take action as follows:
Future posts:
- Go to WordPress settings > Discussions >
- untick “Allow Link Notifications From Other Blogs”
Past Posts:
- Hop into your phpmyadmin
- Find your posts table, note the name with your sites prefix
- Goto the SQL view, type in
update prefix-posts set ping_status = 'closed';
and you are done. All posts and custom post types now set to NOT accept trackbacks.
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