garyofbeeston
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable Comments (Due To Spam)You can see how it’s confusing… emails come in saying ‘A comment is awaiting approval’, only they’re actually pingus and trickbacks. Be nice if WordPress could say what was coming in, instead of lumping them all together as comments and causing confusion.
Even better if there was an option to turn on/off comments and suchlike for older posts as well as future ones, instead of asking the blog owner to open up phpMyAdmin and run ‘UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”;’ as an SQL command. Let’s hope that works!
Gary
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable Comments (Due To Spam)whooami is perfectly correct, deleting that file will also stop commenting, but not anymore than you claim to have already done. When comments are off on all your posts, they are *off*. Comments cannot make it into your system if comments are disabled on all the posts.
With respect, Otto42, that’s not what’s happening in practice for me.
Of the eight settings under Options > Discussions, the first four are off. That includes ‘Email me whenever anyone posts a comment’. Today (so far) I’ve received 20+ emails saying that someone has posted a comment.
Under Options > General, the options are set so that only registered, logged-in users can post comments. I have two registered users, me and the Admin (and I checked using phpMyAdmin, in case something had sneaked in).
Now, under Options > Discussion, I can untick the box so that I’m not notified whnever a comment is held for moderation, but it still doesn’t explain how a comment can be sent when the sender isn’t a registered user, isn’t logged in and there is no comment form for them to fill in on my templates anyway.
I will now try deleting that php file…
GaryForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable Comments (Due To Spam)Hi,
I thought I *had* deleted the comments-inviting code from my template files – that’s another thing that’s bugging me, I’ll check again. I’ve even turned off the option that emails me when a comment comes in, but I still get an email, which is how I know I’m getting the stuff!
I agree with you that blogs are there to allow interactivity, but no-one wants to interact with me, so it’s become more of diary site than a true blog, but with a contact form, just in case. Plus, I can update it anywhere (ish) in the world, like when I was in Canada these last few weeks. Much better than when I used to use Dreamweaver.
Gary
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable Comments (Due To Spam)That’s not strictly true. Options > Discussion has several options, one of which is ‘Allow people to post comments on the article’. Unchecked, this option unchecks the corresponding box on new posts, but not old ones.
Similar posts seem to be saying that the problem could be with trackbacks rather than comments. I’m having the same issue as the OP (I’m running 2.2.3), and have just tried turning trackbacks/pings off, to see what happens.
However, it seems to me that if there are options to comprehensively turn off comments, but owners still get them from somewhere, then there is a pretty fundemental problem here. How are the spammers getting the comments into my database, and what else could they do while in there?
Gary
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to use wp_get_archives?Can I float this to the top, rather than starting a new thread? I have the same problem (running 2.2). The
<option>code is generated fine, and I added the<select>tag around it, but there’s no submit button or onFocus() – style code generated, so selecting anything on the list does nothing.Which looks a bit silly (lucky for me, no-one ever reads my site…)
Gary