I popped in the WordPress forums this morning, and skimmed through a thread where someone was asking how to get rid of trackback spam. Since Tom Raftery says there might be a wave coming, I thought I better get some reinforcements.
Enter Mod_Rewrite Trackback Spam Blocker.
Other than that, I’m not using any other plugins like Kitten’s Spaminator (source) or Spam Karma. In here, I’m still using built-in detection methods and holding up well without additional plugins. (Does the Auto Moderate Comments count? 😛 )
Thats what I use. Works great.
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🙂
I haven’t been getting spam lately, so it’ll be hard for me to compare. Ah well, I’m not complaining!
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Bryan,
Spamhuntress has come up with a nice bit of .htaccess code to stop the current waves of trackback spam in its tracks.
Cheers,
Tom
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I wonder if Mod_Rewrite Trackback Spam Blocker accomplishes a similar thing. Nobody can access the trackback.php file directly, and it’s added to the .htaccess automagically (after resaving the permalink structure). I think I’m trying not to go deeper than what I see in WordPress as much as possible, since everyone might not have the same privileges on their server as we do.
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Sure Bryan,
however, if you look through your raw server logs, at a time when a referrer spammer accessed your site, you won’t see them accessing the trackback.php or xmlrpc.php file directly, rather, they go to post/trackback/ which is what spamhuntress tries to block in her code.
Hope this helps,
Tom
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I haven’t seen trackback spam in awhile, so I couldn’t see exactly what you talking about. I suppose that bit of code can’t hurt, right?
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