Elbows Music Blog Community

Hey everyone, I must have been added to some marketing ping back spam list as of late as I literally have had hundreds of pingbacks hit the spam filter in the last few days. If you made the mistake at any point of not disabling this in the Settings -> discussion settings on the dashboard, here is a command you can execute on your database (using phpMyadmin or MYSQL or whatever your host uses). Reminder to backup your database before you do this just in case.

UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';
UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'page';

*** Warning if you have no idea what or how you would do this, I would highly recommend NOT doing it without checking out how this all works first. I got this command at

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/globally-disable-pingback-and-trackback#post-1210094