Title: Blank Comment Notification Emails
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Blank Comment Notification Emails

 *  [mattlynch01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattlynch01/)
 * (@mattlynch01)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/)
 * Hi,
 * A site I manage [http://www.rachaellynch.com.au](http://www.rachaellynch.com.au)
   has started to have problems with blank comment notifications. It has progressively
   got worse over the last 3 weeks and we now receive approximately 10 blank notifications
   a day. The empty or blank comments don’t show up when logging into the dashboard.
 * Typical email looks like:
    A new comment on the post “Tour Update – World League”
   is waiting for your approval [http://www.rachaellynch.com.au/tour-update/tour-update-world-league/](http://www.rachaellynch.com.au/tour-update/tour-update-world-league/)
 * Author : (IP: , )
    E-mail : URL : Whois : [http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/](http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/)
   Comment:
 * All plugins are up to date and we’re running WP 3.8.1. I’ve tried selectively
   deactivating plugins but nothing seems to fix it. Normal comments are coming 
   through at the same time so comments haven’t failed all together.
 * Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/#post-4585788)
 * some of these could be trackbacks/pingbacks, etc.
 * Check out some plugins, for example: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/);
   [http://wordpress.org/plugins/cookies-for-comments/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/cookies-for-comments/);
   [http://wordpress.org/plugins/spam-free-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/spam-free-wordpress/);
   [http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/)
 *  Thread Starter [mattlynch01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattlynch01/)
 * (@mattlynch01)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/#post-4585840)
 * Trackbacks/pingbacks would still be visible when logging in to the admin panel.
   I still doubt this is spam as Akismet is doing its job fine and blocking a heap
   of spam (all which is still visible in the spam folder) yet these comments don’t
   show.
 * The problem seems to have gotten worse over the weekend also. The posts blank
   comments come from appear to be random but I have noticed that they seem to come
   through mostly 2 at a time from 2 different posts.
 *  [JPD Studio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpdstudio/)
 * (@jpdstudio)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/#post-4585963)
 * Hi Matt, did you ever find a solution for this? We’re experiencing the same issue.
   Thank you!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/#post-4585964)
 * **[@jpdstudio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpdstudio/)**: If you require
   assistance then, as per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post),
   please post your own topic.

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-comment-notification-emails/#post-4585964)
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