Hi markjl, I’ve found some info in the WordPress Codex that may help with this issue:
I have disabled trackbacks, but trackbacks continue to be posted
If you have unchecked Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) on the Options > Discussion panel, then you have only disabled trackbacks on future posts. To completely disable trackbacks, you will have to edit each past post and uncheck Allow Pings from the Write Post SubPanel. Alternatively, you could just simply delete the wp-trackback.php file, or run this MySQL query, from the command line on a shell account, or using PHPMyAdmin: UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”;
Keep us updated and let us know if this helps solve your problem or not, we’re happy to help further.
Hi markjl, were you ever able to make any progress on the trackback spam issue?
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markjl
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Hi thanks for reminding me. I ran the script ok on the database under MyPHPAdmin
602 lines updated, thanks a lot for the help
I’ll let you know if the spam numbers drop off.
On the other hand this week was a real exception with 40 in one day. Usually I get just 2 or 3
Hi markjl, how about now? Strange that your spam jumped to 40 when normally at 2 or 3.
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markjl
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Hello. I’ve had no spam since I made the change. I guess it worked.
I was quite please also to have been able to make another unrelated update to the database which your suggestion made me look for. I was able to replace line feeds with spaces with the following code
update wp_posts set post_content=replace(post_content, “\n”, ” “);
