Stop all trackbacks to your WordPress blog


If you’re a Wordpress blogger and you grow ever more tired of the rising tide of irrelevant, copyright-infringing splogs sending trackback notifications to your posts and pages to let you and the world know they’ve stolen your content and prefixed it with something along the lines of ‘Archimedes wrote this interesting post today…’ or ‘We came across this excellent post by Doctor Ruth today…’ then it’s time for drastic measures. That is, assuming you don’t blog as Archimedes, Doctor Ruth, asdsffdgg, or any of the bot-created names you find popping up on your site within minutes of having posted something new.

A number of anti-splog plugins exist that together do a good job of preventing a great deal of content theft, such as Simple Trackback Validation and AntiLeech. You can also, as I’ve previously reported, here and here and here and here, use the .htaccess file on your host server to redirect persistently offending IP addresses. But that’s time consuming and a never-ending job.

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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