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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Have you tried implementing spam controls?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
I’m 99.44% sure that will also address ping and trackbacks too.
But its happening with bots.. which had to be itself controlled by wordpress core.
Isn’t it a fail..!!
And that too $5 a month.
That means, wordpress itself plans to spam its users and charge to stay away from spam..!!
Hell man
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
That Akismet plugin, isn’t it ??
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
What does that have to do with WordPress?
Akismet is free for non-commercial sites. And if yours is commercial, it’s well worth that price.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
The link given to me above by Mr Jan.
The link points out that to combat the spam, you can use this plugin with a NOTE that it costs only $5 per month.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Ohk, got it..!!
I think I was wrong at finding out that it was free for personal blogs.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
There is also this plugin.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/spam-destroyer/
*Takes deep breath and yells “SPAM DE-STROYER!” Sounds cool. 😉 *
I think it works with trackbacks and pingbacks but double check.
