blisterpeanuts

Bobcat – thanks for your suggestion. I disabled pingbacks for each posting (no option to change trackbacks). The spam has stopped for the moment. Interestingly, the spam didn’t stop after only renaming the wp-trackback file.

As per the FAQ I have renamed the “wp-trackback.php” and will see if comments continue to appear. I wonder if anyone else has this kind of problem. Perhaps WordPress is the wrong tool for a mostly presentation, occasional discussion type of site.

Well I enabled Kismet, and it is catching spam, which is great, but I would rather the spam be disallowed. I shouldn’t need a spam catcher if I require users to register before posting–or does WordPress allow these robots to register automatically? I have turned off trackback or at least have set the option in the control panel but I suspect the main reason spam slowed down was that I blacklisted all the offending IP addresses.

Where in the code does it allow unregistered strangers to arbitrarily store messages in my database???? This is crazy! I will just delete the damn code. I want complete control over this site.

OK thanks Handy, turning off trackback seems to have solved the problem. Will look into these anti-spam tools you suggested. It’s too bad, though, that wordpress isn’t more spam-resistant out of the box.