Comment Spam – With Comments turned off…?

Just to clarify, you enabled pingbacks on the post?

Someone explained this to me once, but I can’t remember all of the details. Mostly had something to do with a spam being generated for the post id before the post is actually created. Something like that.

As long as wp-comments-post.php exists, bots can send spam comments directly through that file. Disabling comments only disables the comment form for the entery.

Mostly had something to do with a spam being generated for the post id before the post is actually created.

Gotta love MySQL’s disregard for referential integrity ??

I am running into the same problem … I have comments off as much as possible … on the main page view there is no comment link anymore … but when you select a single post, it has a commet link, which is inactive (which i knew how to get rid of that too)

if i rename / disable the wp-comments-post.php, would I do any damage to the site? is that a way of getting comments off? like naming it ‘commentspamsuckswp-comments-post.php’ ?

If you want to get rid of comments entirely, just delete wp-comments-post.php, which is exactly what I just said two posts above you. Thank you for being observant. It will cause no damage. You can always upload a new file later.