Spam on posts closed to comments
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I like to scan through the Akismet spam captures to see if there are any legitimate comments caught there, but lately the spam has become so much more vile I hate to look at it. I know it self-deletes in something like 15 days, but I like to delete it every day. I had read in a couple of non-WP blogs a tip that you could cut down on how much spam you get by closing comments on older posts. So I went through the first couple of months of my archives and closed comments on most individual posts. But when I look through my spam and spot-check the “View post” link on the individual spam comments, there are still some coming in on posts for which I have closed comments. They are not making it through to the blog, no worries there — it’s caught by Akismet. But I am wondering how a spam comment can even come through to Akismet on a post that’s closed to comments?
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A lot of the spam I have been getting has been by way of trackbacks – they are using this to get around the block on comments. If you disallow pings / trackbacks as well this might help.
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It should. Over in wp.org land, they usually suggest deleting those files that control trackbacks so turning them off should get you the same resolution.
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