Comments consisting of my own posts?

  • This has happened quite a few times and I sort of diagnosed it. If I have a post that links to another one of my posts sometimes I’ll get a comment that doesn’t have any actual comment content, just text from my own posts. I suspect that this gets triggered when someone follows the link from one post to another. I only recently added a comment box to my posts but received these weird comments before then, which was extra weird because there was nowhere for readers to actually enter comments. Anyone know why this happens?

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  • It is actually a trackback. It appears as a comment depending on the theme you are using. You can tell a trackback because it will have a quoted string and usually some … to indicate more and will list where the link is referenced.

    You can just delete these. WordPress automatically adds them when it detects someone entered your post from a link on another blog site. You can turn this off in the admin section under Options and then the Discussion tab. Then Uncheck the top two boxes.

    Thread Starter buskerdog

    (@buskerdog)

    Great! Thanks!

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