Thank you for your help. I just couldn’t understand how a brand new blog could receive instant spam. I’ve had numerous blogs, blogger, greymatter, and MT and have never been hit by this much spam so soon. I haven’t even been using WordPress for 24 hours yet!! I’ll look into turning off the pinging. I’m still finding my way around and just testing things out at this stage so your help is much appreciated.
By the way, my blog is at https://www.paintedpixels.com/blog/
