Blocking access to feeds.technorati.com

  • billonymous

    (@billonymous)


    21 years, 1 month ago

    I have set up a private blog with WP1.5, disabled trackbacks/pingbacks and deleted all update services entries. However, whenever a new entry is posted, by firewall reports that a connection to feeds.technorati.com has been attempted (by my apache server).

    I can’t find any references to technorati.com in WP php code or in the mysql database. Any idea how to eliminate this connection attempt?

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Plugin doing that maybe ?

    Moderator Matt Mullenweg

    (@matt)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    That’s from the WP dashboard.

    Thread Starter billonymous

    (@billonymous)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    <podz> I checked the plug-ins as well but couldn’t find anything. Besides, I get the same problem with plug-ins deactivated.

    <matt> Could you be more specific? I can’t find anything explicitly on the dashboard.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    When you login to WP, you see the Dashboard. On the Dashboard, you see a section called “Incoming Links”. That gets the links by pulling them from feeds.technorati.com/yourblog.

    Thread Starter billonymous

    (@billonymous)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    <macmanx> Well, I have a section called “Links” but not “Incoming Links” per se. And in “Links”, I can see nothing (obvious) to block interaction with technorati.com.

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Search for some threads referencing “smaller dashboard” etc. There’s a couple of plugins which will remove all of that stuff from the dashboard itself, allowing not only the “non-pinging” of technorati etc. but faster loading of wp itself. One of the plugins can be found at blog.taragana.com I believe….

    Cypher

    (@cypher)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Check in /wp-admin/index.php around line 87, you’ll see a fetch_rss(‘http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss&#8230;.’); and other fetch_rss() calls a little later. Comment them out and you should be all set.

    Regards

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    If you don’t have a section labeled “Incoming Links” located in the small “Latest Activity” box to the upper-right of your dashboard (along with “Posts”, “Comments”, “Blog Stats”, etc.), then you don’t have any incoming links yet. To find incoming links, WordPress checks feeds.technorati.com/yourblog.

    Thread Starter billonymous

    (@billonymous)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    <cypher> I’m not sure how I missed it with my original grep but thanks, that did it.

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