Block specific trackbacks

  • am1971

    (@am1971)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    is there any way to prevent a specific site from leaving trackbacks to a post. While I’m happy for most of them one particular site is simply scraping my feed, publishing to their own site and then using trackbacks to get links back from me.

    I don’t want to turn it off completely and at the moment I’m just manually marking them as spam but if there was an automatic way of doing it that would be great.

    Thanks

    AM1971

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  • drmike

    (@drmike)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Heck with the blocking. Gotta admit that I would contact the host of that site and file a DMCA complaint as it would be a copyright issue.

    If you need assistance, please post the url of the site without the http:// and www bits so it will remain broken and someone can give you info on how to procede.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    18 years, 11 months ago

    I’d block them entirely. Figure out the IP of the scraper (by looking at server logs and such) and add this to your .htaccess:

    Order deny,allow
Deny from 111.222.333.444

    You can add more Deny lines after this if necessary, to deny more than one place.

    If you need to block a wider segment, just leave off the end pieces like so:
    Deny from 111.222.333.

    Or if he’s obviously using some domain, you can deny from that instead:
    Deny from baddomain.com

    Thread Starter am1971

    (@am1971)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks, both.

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