Trackback spamming!

Nomadig.com has been attacked with trackback spamming. The blogosphere got the volume of comment spam apparently down, as spammers are moving to the next targets.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t handle trackbacks with exactly same mechanism as commetns and thus Spaminator cannot be used. I searched for solutions for this problem by surfing the Net and found a couple of new plug-ins to stop spamming:

• Moderate Pingbacks — forces pingbacks into moderation queue.
• Moderate Trackbacks — forces trackbacks into moderation queue, too.

Both of these plug-ins are written by Nick Nomrik, kudos to him.

The only problem is that I’ve to manually moderate ping/trackbacks, but as I haven’t seen much of them, this shouldn’t be a problem.