In vanilla WordPress the only difference is that trashed comments get deleted automatically after (customizable) time span. Adding plugins to the picture – it might make difference to what/how specific plugin learns from incoming spam.
Hi @Nick Loman: There is not one command, but several. Be care though to back up your database before running this because there’s a tiny chance something in your database differs from mine, especially after a .1 upgrade beyond 3.0 and thus it may not work perfectly and you’ll have to restore. DELETE FROM wp_usermeta … Read more
To make this more WP-ish: function wpse_delete_trackbacks() { global $wpdb; $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( ” DELETE FROM %s WHERE `comment_type` = ‘trackback’ “, “{$wpdb->prefix}comments” ) ); }
This can be solved using the Bulk Edit WordPress functionality. and Change the number of items to be shown in Screen Options, so you can select all posts/pages at once. Two things worth noting in the Q&A pointed by @BartKarp: There is the option to turn off trackbacks/pingbacks under Settings > Discussion. it has a … Read more
I’ll try to answer even though the questions are a bit generic: 1) Should I check anything else apart from deleting the new users and fixing the setting? When deleting a user from the admin, WordPress asks you if you want to keep or delete any associated post for that user. Independently from that, it … Read more
Put this in a network activated plugin. add_filter(‘pings_open’,’__return_false’); No more incoming pings.
Use these three plugins in combination: Cookies for Comments Simple Trackback Validation Akismet Ditch the captcha and math plugins, they’re pretty much useless. The combination of these three is enough for most anybody, without having to put any problems back on the user.
I have been using Recaptcha which has the added benefit of helping to translate literature. (!)The plugin linked above will add Re-Captcha to your comments or registration form or both. It also has features like themes for the captcha forms. Definitely worth looking into.
In Settings > Discussion > Comment Blacklist. You can blacklist comments based on content, name, url, e-mail, or IP. To mark the comments as spam, what I would do, is to do a search for his IP and then there is a checkbox that will select all, then just mark as spam. Trick is, it … Read more
If you are using a twentyten/eleven theme, they hardcode the pingback meta tag into the head.php file. Remove that line or use your own theme. Also, and maybe it’s only in multisite, but the X-Pingback header is sent along with the xmlrpc endpoint url as well. Removed with the following: /** * Remove the X-Pingback … Read more