MTDisguiseTrackbackURL is a mini-plugin that replaces the MT function for the <MTEntryTrackbackURL> tag that is displayed in the Trackback Listing template. MTDisguiseTrackbackURL outputs the URL using a few javascript commands, breaking up the full URL in the underlying HTML code. But as long as your visitors are using a JavaScript-enabled browser, the URL will appear the exact same way that it does now, and they can easily copy and paste the URL manually.

If you want to seem an example, view the Trackbacks page for this entry, and view source to see the JavaScript code.

Installation:

Installation is very easy:

1. Download Now:

DisguiseTrackbackURL.zip.

2. Extract the DisguiseTrackURL.pl and upload it to the 'plugins' directory within your 'mt' directory.

3. That's all. Since Trackback listing pages are dynamically displayed, you don't need to rebuild anything.

As always, feedback is appreciated.

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Thanks for the plugin. I'm sure the MT community will thank you. Two
items of feedback:

1. The following quote is inaccurate: "Since Trackback listing pages are
dynamically displayed, you don't need to rebuild anything." If you're
displaying <MTTrackBackLink> without using a popup, as I do, it's
generated once upon rebuild. In this case, a full rebuild of all
Individual Archive pages is necessary to implement your plugin.

(As an aside, I think it's silly to put trackbacks in a popup, and I don't
know why so many blogs use that behavior. TrackBacks are at least as
important as comments, and probably more so—why aren't they
displayed inline by default with entries?)

2. Your plugin does not output valid HTML code by default. The outputted
<script> tag is:

<script language='Javascript'<

The W3C validator complains about this and wants a "type" attribute as
well.

For others using MTDisguiseTrackbackURL v0.5, you can make the code valid
by using this regex (using MTRegex):

<MTRegexDefine name="scriptType">s|<script
language='Javascript'>|<script language="javascript"
type="text/javascript">|gi</MTRegexDefine>

And call it this way:

<$MTEntryTrackbackLink regex="scriptType"$>

Hope that helps somebody. Thanks again, Mark.

This RDF data is vital for the auto-discoverability feature of Trackbacks.

You have a couple of options:

1) Delete the above tag from your templates and lose the auto-discoverability of TB.

2) Use one of the many techniques outlined at Elise Bauer's page.

3) Try out my tb-random-rename.pl script :) It will let you automagically rename your TB script to include a random number, making you a much harder target for spammers.

I believe it's much easier to mass-delete trackback spam in MT 3.x. Are you using 2.x?

That's not an error, it's just a warning. And it is nothing to worry about. The plugin is designed to exactly what the warning says, it redefines the _hdlr_entry_tb_link subroutine in order to disguise the link.

The difference probably lies in the version or Perl or something. This "warning" is occuring in both cases, just not showing on one of them. But it "just works". ;)

For 3 days. Now the spammers are back.

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