Howto Moderate Trackbacks Only

  • The following works on several blogs 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
    Edit your wp-trackback.php file.
    Search for :
    ("$comment_post_ID", "$author", "$email", "$tb_url", "$user_ip", "$now", "$now_gmt", "$comment", "$approved") and change the $approved to 0 (zero). This will force all trackbacks into moderation.

    NOTE :
    This will not moderate comments. It will cause ALL trackbacks to be thrown into moderation for approval.

    To disable trackbacks completely you can comment out the following line :

    $pingstatus = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ping_status FROM $tableposts WHERE ID = $tb_id"); by putting at the begining of the line \\
    then put a new line underneath with :
    $pingstatus = ‘closed’;

    NOTE :
    This will not disable comments. It will cause ALL trackbacks to be ignored.

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  • Well I’m glad to know it’s not just me — I’ve had a couple hundred, too. At one point it almost drove me to tears — these people should be drawn and QUARTERED. :: sigh ::

    I haven’t gotten any in the past few minutes, so either they’ve given up, or the plugin is working. Nothing’s shown up in my moderation queue, though.

    The only spam prevention plugins I have running are the Spammer Tar Pit (LOVE THAT ONE!) and…well, I think that’s it. The blacklist, too.

    Oh — I just looked at my plugins admin page — yes, I’m using 1.11 for both pingbacks and trackbacks. ??

    I really can’t think of why it wouldn’t be working, even with another spam plugin.

    The way the current version of the plugin works is after WP processes a trackback, the plugin goes into the DB and sets it to unapproved, no matter what it’s set to currently. So I’m very surprised that it’s not working for you.

    This is something I need to change. The next version will be checking to see if it’s already set to ‘spam’ by the blacklist or anything else for that matter.

    Well we could do a test — would you go to my blog and try to do a trackback?

    Here’s a trackback test site…

    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/Trident/index.php

    You can log in there and send yourself trackbacks and pingbacks.

    Awesome — thanks!

    I just updated both the PB and TB moderation plugins both to version 1.12. Now they don’t do anything if it has been marked as spam.

    The Moderate Trackback plugin is now at version 1.2.

    Instead of marking a trackback for moderation at the end of the trackback process, it’s done right before it’s put into the database. This means that you’ll now get the correct email messages from WordPress asking you to moderate.

    ??

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