Some site owners don’t want commenting on older posts, for a variety of reasons. Often, it’s because the content is time-sensitive, and it wouldn’t make much sense to revive old news. If you’d like to restrict your posts so that they don’t get comments after a certain number of days, apply the below steps. If […]
WordPress will display comments in your theme based on whether comments have been submitted, providing it’s a single post or page, so long as your theme has the necessary comment template file present and providing you’ve got discussion options set so that comments are enabled. The theme file that determines how comments are displayed is […]
Be sure to check out our security section for loads more information about detecting and stopping brute force attacks on WordPress comments, WordPress sites, and websites in general. Note: KnownHost proudly provides a protective anti-DDoS network security layer to stop distributed denial of service attacks on all websites hosted with KnownHost. Read more about the KnownHost […]
As a default behavior, WordPress restricts comments to just text (with some HTML markup allowed on a very limited scale). However, there are times when it would be nice to allow attachments, just as pics or documents, like Word or Excel, or even text document attachments. The sky is the limit – you could even allow video, […]
When people talk about ajaxifying, ajaxify or just ajax in general, in the context of CMS’s and web applications, like WordPress, typically they’re meaning some type of functionality that can be completed without them needing to reload the page. In the case of WordPress comments, to ajaxify them means simply that you can submit a […]
As WPSec.com explains, WordPress “XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.”. Originally, XML-RPC was developed back in the early days of WordPress, where Internet connections were slow and sporadic at best. In fact, rather than actively writing new posts via the WordPress […]
While you may hear a lot about WordPress exploits, it could be that you’re not familiar with how the pingback mechanism in WordPress works, or how it can be used by dastardly hackers. One of the most popular approaches is to use the XML-RPC mechanism, inherent in WordPress, because it gives hackers the ability to […]
As mentioned in the pingback guide overview, pingback links are by default flagged as rel=nofollow. That means some search engines will ignore, while others will treat as regular dofollow links. When a link is dofollow, search engines will attribute link trust and authority to the linked site, and pull some of that back from the […]
You can easily turn off, or on, the sending of pingbacks from within the main WordPress menu options of your given site install. If you’d like to know, “How do I disable sending pingbacks?”, then read on…. If you’d like to send pingbacks whenever you link to a blog post, internally or externally, then make […]
Pingbacks and Trackbacks both require approval. Both are handled very much like comments. Both can frequently be used by spammers to get links back to their sites for added traffic and search rankings. Pings, by their nature, are things like short sounds to detect an object, like sonar in a submarine, or short bits of […]