Turning Comments off?

  • Brain916

    (@brain916)


    20 years, 1 month ago

    Ok, I turned off the comments after having over 600 blog entries, and after that I went to each individual entry and manually turned them off.

    But still spammers are some how still posting. Everyone is turned off, I even look and at the bottom it says Comments Closed.

    So how are they still spamming the comments on my blog? And how can I make them stop? Thank you.

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  • viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    Oi, manually turned them all off? That musta been a pain, especially since with a database query you coulda turned them off for all posts in about 3 seconds. 😉

    Anyway, are they actually comments or are they pingback/trackbacks?

    And make sure “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is checked on the Options page.

    BTW, why did you turn off comments? Due to the spam? Or did you just not want any comments anymore?

    If it was due to the spam, then you should know that there are MANY great anti-spam plugins out there, including Spam Karma 2 which is what I use.

    See also:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Spam
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools

    Thread Starter Brain916

    (@brain916)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    yea due to spam. actually theuy are trackbacks I believe, because it says much of nothing, and the title is a link

    Thread Starter Brain916

    (@brain916)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    update:

    they are using Trackbacks/Pingbacks »»> to do this

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    If you can access your WordPress database through an admin tool like phpMyAdmin (or whatever your host may provide), here’s an SQL query that will shut off comments and ping/trackbacks on your posts:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'closed', ping_status = 'closed';

    Just make sure the table prefix (‘wp_’ on wp_posts) is the one you’re using.

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