How to kill Hello World page

  • vichardy

    (@vichardy)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    I’m fairly new to WP, but am managing 6 sites. I noticed that I was receiving occasional comments from several sites where I was sure all comments were turned off on each page.

    After a little investigation, I realized that folks have figured out that if you type in the domain/hello-world, some of the time you’ll get an old page with comments on. Even though I had deleted (and then purged from trash) the hello-world page, it’s ghost persists and people are leaving annoying sales pitches, and worse.

    I even tried to create another hello-world page, turn off the comments and then kill it, but was still able to access by the domain/hello-world url. I even picked out some random WP sites and tried it, and it worked on some of them.

    Does anybody know how to kill this off permanently?

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  • Jordan Alexo

    (@jordan-alexo)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Well, I never had such problem. Anyway, it’s not really people who are spamming your website but bots.

    One way to block great part of your spam is to use a plugin like Akismet.

    Also, you could try to go your phpMyAdmin tool, choose the right database, then search for that post. If it still exists just delete it permanently. But I really don’t recommend this, you might actually do something wrong. Or, at least back your website before you do it.

    Thread Starter vichardy

    (@vichardy)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Not bots, at least not yet. It is advertising. I know how remove the comments; already did that. What I want to know is why that page is still in memory. I’m not that familiar with the guts of mysql, but you bring up a good point. The page is probably lurking in the db; I’ll take a look at that.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter vichardy

    (@vichardy)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I figured it out. Learned a bit about mysql via phpmyadmin, under the entry wp-posts, found a record called hello-world. Even though the page had been deleted (and purged from the trash bin), it really was still there.

    Deleted the record in the sql database and it’s gone!

    Jordan Alexo

    (@jordan-alexo)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    You also might have your page saved in your cache memory. Just an option. At least, I had similar problems because of that lol.

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