Getting SLAMMED with Spam

[DMotel]

I am getting tons of email daily from spammers looking for trackbacks to my entries. Can I turn something off so they don't keep getting me?

Messages look something like this:
[Requires review] New trackback made to etc.

I cannot figure out how to turn OFF trackbacks entirely.
Thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can install/configiure the spamblock plugin to disable trackbacks ("comments made via API-calls").

Best regards,
Garvin

[ed587]

I'm trying to get rid of the trackbacks and the text above comments in the entry pages. I edited entries.tpl and got fatal errors and so put the original file back. Can anyone tell me what lines in entries.tpl to delete? I am using the Bulletproof template. Thanks.

~Ed587

[judebert]

Bulletproof has a lot of options for different configurations. You may need to modify a lot of places.

Find every line in the entries.tpl file that has {$entry.trackbacks}. Surround that entire line with Smarty comments: {* and *}.

If you know a little programming, you'll see that you've just commented out all the statements inside conditionals. (If you understood what I just said, read on. Otherwise, skip to the next paragraph.) That makes the conditionals useless; you can surround the entire block with Smarty comments instead and gain some efficiency.

Of course, the best way to handle this is to block the spam altogether. The Anti-Spam plugin provides this capability, especially when its TypePad Antispam or Akismet options are enabled.

Let us know if we can help with anything else!