WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation

These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto your site without you first approving them.

Note: This does not do anything for all of the old trackbacks/pingbacks that have already been added to your site.

More information on the WordPress Plugins page.

This entry was written by Nick, posted on January 6, 2005 at 1:11 am, filed under Entry and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

22 Comments

  1. Peter
    Posted January 6, 2005 at 4:50 am | Permalink

    In your moderate-pingbacks.php plugin you have:

    add_action(‘pingback_post’, ‘moderate_trackback’);

    where you should have moderate_pingback – oops!

    That being so, the plugins nevertheless seem not to be doing anything :( I’m using WP 1.2 and WP 1.2.1 depending on which weblog we’re talking. Your code is indeed very simple, and it really ought to do the job, but it disnae seem to be. Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    Peter

  2. Nick
    Posted January 6, 2005 at 10:23 am | Permalink

    Whoops, I’ll fix that plugin. Like I said…I haven’t been able to test with 1.2 versions, although I think I might know what is happening there. I’ll try to work that out.

  3. Nick
    Posted January 6, 2005 at 10:30 am | Permalink

    I just remembered that in the 1.3 code they inplemented a new way of accessing the tables in the DB. I reverted back to the old way in the plugins (which still works in new WP versions). Can someone test on a 1.2 install? Thanks.

  4. Nick
    Posted January 6, 2005 at 10:37 am | Permalink

    I just tested on some of my blogs using 1.3x and the changes I made work here.

  5. Andy
    Posted January 7, 2005 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    Just had three trackbacks going straight through (i.e. no moderation), using WordPress 1.2 :neutral:

  6. Nick
    Posted January 7, 2005 at 11:07 am | Permalink

    I just found the same thing. I’ve had about 4 come right through. In my tests, it was working, so I’m not sure what could be going wrong. I’ll try to resolve the issue tonight. Sorry folks. :sad:

  7. Nick
    Posted January 7, 2005 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

    Just did another quick test and the plugins are working on one of my sites that is using WordPress 1.3-alpha-3 (the original site I tested with), but not on this site, which is using WordPress 1.3-alpha-2. So it looks as if the problem many not be with the plugin, but instead with the underlying plugin architecture in WP, although I can’t be certain at this point.

    More testing later…

  8. Nick
    Posted January 7, 2005 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    I found the problem and added a text file to the download with instructions on the fix.

  9. Marc
    Posted August 23, 2005 at 11:23 am | Permalink

    Nice dev thanks

  10. Prentiss Riddle
    Posted September 19, 2005 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    Note that a couple of researchers at Rice University have released a Trackback spam blocker plugin for WordPress: their Trackback Validator Plugin checks to make sure that the sites which send you Trackback pings really do link to you, a test that most Trackback spammers fail.

  11. Nick
    Posted September 19, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    That’s a great idea for a plugin, but it has a MAJOR flaw. Most trackbacks do not have a link in the original post. Those would be pingbacks, which are a different beast.

  12. Koka
    Posted April 14, 2006 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

    where can i download these two plugins??

  13. Nick
    Posted April 14, 2006 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

    Uh..click the link where it says more information can be found at…

  14. Nancy
    Posted June 18, 2006 at 9:49 am | Permalink

    Are these plugins compatible with WordPress 2.0?

  15. Sachin Garg
    Posted August 27, 2006 at 6:02 am | Permalink

    These plugins sound great. I also want to know if these will work with WordPress 2.0

  16. Carry Las
    Posted December 12, 2006 at 6:39 am | Permalink

    Why is it so impossible to make everything?

  17. manele
    Posted August 31, 2007 at 5:11 am | Permalink

    now my blog is clean :) thank you for your useful plugin!

  18. xyz
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 8:27 am | Permalink

    abc

  19. Manele gratis
    Posted January 9, 2008 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    great tool man.. thans for this great plugin.. keep up the good work!!!

  20. Eule
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    Is this still up to date? Are there any features that aren’t in the WP core?

  21. Jim
    Posted March 5, 2008 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Hey Nick, thanks for the plugins. Any particular reasons why you decided to seperate them?

  22. african djembe drums
    Posted March 5, 2008 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    thanks for the plugins… they’re great

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