Integrate AKISMET checks into trackback to get rid of tb spam loads

I just installed the fourth edition of your trackbacks patch at my new project, Law Favorites. It seems to be working really well. I was have trouble with trackback spam and it seems to have completely stopped now. Thanks!

I noticed one of the new features, "use akismet_records_per_page settings instead of hardcoded 50 per page" does not seem to work for me. I was getting really long pages (hundreds in fact) in the trackbacks queue even though I set Akismet to list a maximum of 20 per page. This is sort of a minor issue, but I thought you might be interested in knowing about it.

I'm willing to help test this, as I have really missed trackback feature. But all my sites, production and test, are now running 5.0 RC. If I add trackback.info file, would patched 4.7 version work?

for those that prefer a patch file....

@chrisada: there's no 5.0 version of akismet available so far imho ,there it CAN not work, but trackback isn'T ported to 5 either

There is, in fact, a 5.0 version of Akismet. I ported it and created the project about a week or two ago. :-)

Has there been any activity on this for 5.x? We have trackback for 5.x as well as Akismet. Obviously the module listed on this page doesn't work under 5.x. It's been a long time since Jan 9, but I can find nothing about this for 5.x anywhere (I even looked through CVS). The spam module isn't very helpful. I've created hundreds of filters, and I still get hundreds of spam trackbacks per week that I must moderate, whereas Akismet just does the work for you.

Christoph, your blog states you are using 5.x now. Have you taken the time to update Akismet-trackback integration for 5.x?

Where do I donate, if I were so inclined, to help with a Drupal 5 update? The Spam module is simply not cutting it for my trackback spam, although it seemed to initially help. Nothing else I’ve done has helped either. I’ve disabled Trackback.

I’d also like to see the Negative Turing Test adapted for Drupal nodes, comments, and trackbacks, if it can be. There’s a Wordpress module I found at that link.

Since Akismet is doing a splendid job of filtering trackbacks in Wordpress.

And since it's been another few months I thought I ask again ...

Is there a way to use Akismet for trackbacks in Drupal 5.7?

thanks

Yes. We're eagerly--even desperately--awaiting the 5.x version of this patch.

I've had to shut trackback off. And it was working so beautifully before I upgraded.

I'm possibly a bit late into the game, but perhaps it would be an idea to make it possible for other modules to plug into TrackBack, instead of having TrackBack plug into them? This way, it would be possible to Mollom, Spam, Akismet, or something entirely else that may come around in the future. (Dries said he would like something like this.)

On another note, it's far easier to review the actual code changes, when the patch is provided as a patch. Right now, I don't know which parts of the code are part of this issue and which aren't. And I don't want to give (e.g.) code style comments on code not a part of the patch, as that really ought to be solved on its own/in a separate issue. Please give the Creating patches handbook page a look, if you're not already familiar with it. Thank you. :)

Oh, and thirdly, is this bug still for 4.7?

@Freso: Trackback module supports the hook_trackback function for other modules to filter incoming trackbacks.

Well, if there already is support for this in Trackback, isn't it then a question of making Akismet (et al) plug into Trackback, instead of making Trackback plug into Akismet? From where I see it, that makes a whole lot of more sense. Alternatively, if Akismet has any sort of API, then perhaps an add-on module (for either Akismet or Trackback) could be used to couple the two. (In the former case, this should probably be closed "won't fix" (or "by design"), and open a request in Akismet's issue queue.)

Yes, it has been already. Akismet or other modules can filter incoming trackbacks using hook_trackback function.

I'd like to know more about this feature: is it in the latest version or planned in -DEV?

Regards

So what's the way to filter trackbacks with Akismet at the moment? Does it work in 5.x? Thanks.

Just FTR (and because I would like some feedback), I have now posted a patch to Mollom which will (hopefully) integrate Trackback checks there: #245364: Provide API to programmatically validate content (integration with Trackback module)

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