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1. purrkur
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I have searched the forums for an answer but I haven't found one.

   I have comments on my site activated and I use the "Users must be registered and logged in to comment" part. I got 3 registered users and all are people I know. Despite this fact, I am getting lots of spam into my "awaiting moderation" page. Why is that and how can that be? Don't the spammers have to log on and then write a message for it to end up in there? I am not seeing any new user registrations. I am running version 1.5.1.2.

   Thanks.

2. Mark McKibben
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Probably what you are actually getting is trackback spam.

3. idbehold
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   how do you disable trackbacks?

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 6 years ago #

   For instructions, see "I have disabled trackbacks, but trackbacks continue to be posted." here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Q_.26_A

5. purrkur
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thanks Manzabar and Macmanx. I have disabled pingbacks and tracebacks and then I ran the following query in my database:

   update wp_posts set ping_status='closed';

   Hopefully my spam issues will go away, at least for the time being :)

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