When a web page or another blog creates a trackback link to an entry in your blog, the trackback item generated is listed in the Recent Trackbacks area of the Dashboard. In some cases, you may want to delete a trackback to your site for security reasons.

You can also block all trackbacks from a specific URL and trackbacks resolving to that specific URL. This will not block all trackbacks originating from the same IP as the blocked URL. In order to block all trackbacks from a specific IP address, you need to provide that IP.

Note: IP information is not always reliable, and in some cases blocking IPs is not an effective way to prevent linking to your blog. For example, spammers will simply use a different IP, which you haven't blocked. If multiple computers use the same IP, you risk blocking all computers that use that IP, not just the computer that originated the trackback to your blog.

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Using the Dashboard to select and delete trackbacks

On the Dashboard, you can select and delete trackbacks that are listed in the Recent Trackbacks section. You also have the option to block the IP address of the web page that linked to the entry in your blog.

Deleting trackbacks from the Article Trackback page

On the Dashboard, you can select a specific trackback in the Recent Trackbacks section and open the Article Trackbacks page. From this page, you can chose to delete the trackback, or delete the trackback and block the IP address of the web page that linked to the entry in your blog.