Getting lots of spam on one blog entry from 2007
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Back when my.opera was dissolved, I moved all my blog posts over here. All is good, except that one post from 2007 is a total spam magnet. I assume it's in some kind of list spammers use?
Can I just change the permalink settings so that the URL changes? Or is there some other way to make spammers get a 404?
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@wildente Turn off comments on posts older than say, 14 days. Or 1 month, 1 year, whatever.
Get an Akismet API key and set it up in WP.
https://akismet.com/plans/
It's pay what you want.Of course you can change the entry 'slug' but I doubt it will help much.
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@pathduck didn't find that comment setting. Let's start with thata then
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@wildente Did you try looking?
https://wordpress.org/support/article/comments-in-wordpress/ -
@pathduck I went through the settings here on the blogging platform and saw akismet where I could have configured even more stuff and stopped. Sorry, too complex for (someone like?) me who just wants to write a post every quarter year or so.
Thanks for your quick hint with the comments. Could have found that one myself, admittedly
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