Simple tip for trackback spam prevention on WordPress Blogs

February 4th, 2005 by Angsuman Chakraborty

A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs.
Delete your first post (id 0). Write the same content in another post.
I receive many trackbacks targeted for the first post. They never show up as the post isn’t there!

I am assuming you have word filter enabled too. That is a must.

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