Venue pingbacks/trackbacks

[Dennis]

I found the support forum post about enabling comments for Venues: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/venue-comments-not-appearing/

I have a related but opposing problem. I have no interest in enabling comments or discussion on my Venues 🙂 however, my venues are getting trackback-spammed like crazy, driving the admin users crazy.

Is the best solve to implement these two snippets and then explicitly turn off pingbacks/trackbacks on venues? Since my list of venues is relatively small (<12) and doesn’t appear to be growing, I could do this…but would a MySQL update be a better approach?

And a more “wonder why” question…if comment functionality is disabled by default, why wouldn’t pingbacks/trackbacks be disabled on these post types by default, avoiding this from the get go? Or even options in the settings of the plugin?

[Nico]

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for reaching out to us! I can help you here…

To start off let me point you to an article on this subject: How to Stop WordPress Trackback and Pingback Spam.

As the article suggests it might be a good idea to just turn off trackbacks/pingbacks if it just doesn’t benefit your site. If you want to just turn them of for venues, you can paste the following snippet in your theme’s functions.php file:

https://gist.github.com/niconerd/b12272cf7c05e67211061dd8954eefcd

And a more “wonder why” question…if comment functionality is disabled by default, why wouldn’t pingbacks/trackbacks be disabled on these post types by default, avoiding this from the get go? Or even options in the settings of the plugin?

I guess the approach here is to follow the same convention as WordPress (allow trackbacks/pingbacks). It’s true we disable comments on those post types, that’s because doing so is what makes sense for most of our customers.

Please let me know if this helps you out,
Have a great weekend,
Nico

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