Help Please With Trackback Spam On WordPress Blog
Everton | Dec 06, 2006 | Comments 5
I’m wasting about an hour a day deleting Trackback Spam which is really annoying. What’s the best way of stopping it? I’ve tried installing the Trackback validator, which has helped a bit but hasn’t stopped all the spam.
Also, how do I get the latest trackbacks to display on the Dashboard? At the moment I’m having to delete them by following the ‘delete’ link on the email notification.
Thanks.
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.
He also writes for Windows 8 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.





I’m not using Akismet but Spam Karma. Spam Karma lists all comments that it declared spam in a list (20 default, but you can change that number).
I mark all with the press of a button and quickly take a look at each, 99% is spam all the time. Once this is done I click on remove selected and all are gone. Takes about 1-5 minutes each day.
I use Spam Karma too. I just let it do it’s thing. I rarely have to do anything. I don’t even have to moderate comments or trackbacks for the most part. Once or twice a month it asks me to moderate something that it isn’t sure of, but that’s it.
akismet works the same way, but was having problems earlier this week with a few making it past the filters.
They seem to have fixed things now though.
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