{"id":72,"date":"2006-05-20T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/72"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:40:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:40:02","slug":"argggh-more-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/72","title":{"rendered":"Argggh, more comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got fed up with it&mdash;77 in the last week so I have installed <a title=\"Anti spam\" href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>. It was quite easy really.<\/p>\n<p>But I was still curious how they were getting through, even though I require registration and signin before commenting. I found the answer is this <a title=\"Not comment spam, trackbacks\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/73049#post-381674\">forum message by Otto42<\/a>. It seems they are not comments but trackbacks so a panic turning off comments won&#8217;t stop it as some people have tried. In fact turning off trackbacks won&#8217;t work either because each individual old post will still have them enabled. The recommended answer is Akismet&mdash;done that, so let&#8217;s hope it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got fed up with it&mdash;77 in the last week so I have installed Akismet. It was quite easy really. But I was still curious how they were getting through, even though I require registration and signin before commenting. I found the answer is this forum message by Otto42. It seems they are not comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}