PHANTOM BLOG ENTRIES – NOT MINE

• 

  lombzthelibra · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 8:06 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  There have been posts appearing on my blog that are not posted by me at all. Spam. No body in the text but mature titles. Tried changing my password but it continues. I have to keep deleting these entries. HELP!!!!!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 8:08 pm

  • Copy link

  If anyone is posting anything to your blog or removing anything from it, then it’s most likely that you have provided them with the ability to do so, either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.

  Who, aside from you, has access to your login information?

  Go to your email program and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs

  Read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/

  1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.

  2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

  3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/

  4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
  You can also reset your password via your Settings tab on the WordPress.com home page:
  http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/

  5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.

  6. Use two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/

  P.S. I flagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

• 

  shawnajroberts · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 2:16 am

  • Copy link

  Hello! It looks like these posts are coming in through the Post by Email feature. You’ll need to disable that post by email address in order to stop these posts.

  Post by Email

  Let me know if you have any more questions!