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spam on pictures? (12 posts)

  1. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I have Comments turned off for pages and posts.
    But now my Spam folder has 3 comments in it - all on the same image. Not on a post or a page, but an image.
    When I click View Post, it shows me my main page header and then below it, the picture. And below that, a comment box, to leave comments!
    When I click Edit, to see if I can turn off comments, it only takes me to the image properties page.
    I assume that I did not set 'no comments' until after I uploaded this particular image ... but how does this page come up with a comment box???
    More importantly, how can I turn off commenting on this (and any other) image?
    Thanks!

  2. SwansonPhotos
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Few realize that a main goal of malware writers is to get website authors to infect websites through their own lack of understanding...The Codex explains in detail how to remove bad files, cleanup the db and prevents this, most of which occurs from home users without proper knowledge of malware...

  3. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    The Codex is very big and I have no idea where to look. How about a link?

  4. MickeyRoush
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    saladgoat wrote:

    The Codex is very big and I have no idea where to look. How about a link?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam

    Sounds like you have trackback spam. Disable all trackbacks. On already created pages you'll need to uncheck them on an individual basis.

  5. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    It's not trackbacks, it is comments. And the Codex link you provided is helpful for regular spam but not for what I am getting.

    I have all comments and trackbacks turned off.

    If I get spam comments on a post I can go into the Edit page for that post and turn off commenting. I know that.

    These spam are happening to pictures. There is no way that I can see that I can turn off commenting on pictures. When I click to Edit, it takes me to the properties page for that image, which has no option for comments.

    The only useful thing on that Codex page is to delete the wp-comments-post.php file, which is quite drastic and would affect my ability to allow comments in the future, if I chose to. (Wouldn't this file be restored on every WordPress update? Meaning I would have to delete it every time I updated WordPress?)

    Here is a screenshot of the spam I am getting so you can see what I mean, if I am not explaining it properly.

    Thanks!

  6. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Maybe this is a solution. http://www.keanei.com/2011/05/26/prevent-comment-spam-on-wordpress-image-and-attachment-pages/

  7. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    That sounded so promising but I am using the Twenty-ten theme and whoever made it put all the good stuff in the loop, where I can't find it. The attachment file (and, in fact, all the files) are basically:
    get_header
    get_loop
    get_footer
    leaving nothing to edit. :(

  8. Ronda Kay
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Did you ever get an answer for this?
    I'm having the same problem.

  9. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Ronda,
    I never figured it out.
    What happened was that I had set No Comments for the entire site after I had uploaded these images, so only these had commenting allowed.
    By re-uploading the images in questions and deleting these ones, I was able to completely stop spam.
    But that's really only handy if you have commenting disabled. If you want to allow comments, then I think you're stuck with spam.

  10. Ronda Kay
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    thanks so much. easy enough to re-upload the image as it's only one.

    where did you set the "No Comments" for the entire site?

  11. saladgoat
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Go to Settings -> Discussion and uncheck
    Allow people to post comments on new articles

    That will automatically disable commenting on all future posts/pages, etc.
    But you can turn it on for individual posts/pages on the Edit screen.

  12. Ronda Kay
    Member
    Posted 2 weeks ago #

    thanks very much! I followed your suggestion!

    Best wishes for great digital days (as opposed to 'digital daze' where i find myself quite often!)

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