Title: Spammed closed comments Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Spammed closed comments * [showard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/showard/) * (@showard) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/) * I’m using 1.2, and have a pretty good set of anti-spam stuff in place, including Kitten’s spaminator. And I have comments automatically close after 30 (I think) days. So not much gets through. But today, I got comment spam to a very old post on which the comments are closed. I think, although I’m not totally sure, that this is the first time this has happened. How can this happen? And is there anything I can do about it? * [http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn](http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/page/2/?output_format=md) * [dmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmd/) * (@dmd) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149778) * As far as I can tell, under 1.5 there is no way to actually close comments – closing comments merely removes the link for normal humans to close comments, but if someone (e.g., a spammer) knows the URL to the comment-posting script, they can still post. This needs to be fixed… * Thread Starter [showard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/showard/) * (@showard) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149780) * Ah, I see. Thanks. Yep, it’s time to upgrade… * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149781) * Actually, in v1.5, closing comment in Options/Discussions only closes comments on future posts. You have to edit past article and deactivate comments as well. Or, you could just delete wp-comments-post.php. * See “I have disabled comments, but comments continue to be posted.” here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Q_.26_A](http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Q_.26_A) * [dmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmd/) * (@dmd) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149789) * No, this is happening even on posts where comments are disabled. * [dmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmd/) * (@dmd) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149790) * That is to say – I’m not actually getting comments posted, but I *am* getting moderation requests. Dozens of them. To blog entries which, if you look at them on the blog page, say “Comments off” at the bottom. * Though when I try to reproduce this behavior myself (by turning on comments, entering data into the comments form on another computer, turning off comments, and hitting submit), I cannot – I indeed get an error saying comments are disabled. So how this is happening I’m not sure. Yet I’m definitely getting dozens of comment- moderation requests, and all of my blog posts are set to ‘comments off’, and that is reflected on the blog ( [http://caconym.org/blog/](http://caconym.org/blog/))— not a one of the (few) entries has a link for comments. * [thomasso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasso/) * (@thomasso) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammed-closed-comments/#post-149798) * [note: talking about WP1.2 not 1.5] * Actually, the latest trick that I have seen SPAMMERs doing now is hitting the Track Back links and getting their evil vile SPAM on your site that way. I have taken some measures by editing out the track back options on my comment page and beefed up the fields for using the track back links. I think they use older posts that carry the tack back links in the first place? I just hide them from the SPAMMERS and it seems to work. Those people from Texas-peons are hitting new ground with their latest tactic. They seem to be getting desperate with all the anti-SPAMMER measures in place now. If someone has a great idea for regulating the Back Track option without taking it out altogether, I sure would like to hear about it? * Here’s an example of what I first received: ================================ ================ - New trackback on your post # “SMASH AND GRAB AT FORT LANGLEY” Website: texas hold\’em (IP: 159.213.225.5 , 159.213.225.5)
URI : [http://www.spammersarecrap.com Excerpt:
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. by texas hold’em - You can see all trackbacks on this post here:
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