• Someone is using one of my blog posts to basically shut down my blog. I have no visitors which is unusual and I am finding spam in my email every time I check it.

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  • These are just a few things that might help.

    1. Contact your webhost for assistance
    2. If you feel / fear they’ve got your passwords, change them!!
    3. install and activate a spamtool like ‘akismet’
    4. use tools such as ‘captcha’ to hinder the use of ‘spambots’ [they can’t deal with captcha-fields]
    5. if you allow visitors to contribute to your blog, you could use ‘membership-plugins’ so that people need to login first. You then have better control over which ‘members’ you grant access / block

    There’s a fantastic Codex FAQ if your site has been hacked: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

    It appears though that the case here is with mostly spam. You’ll definitely want to install and activate akismet as W.P. Ginfo recommended. Next disable registration if you have no use for it on your site.

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