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How to Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

August 15, 2020 DbAppWeb Admin

Problem

I am getting comments on posts for the links given to the posts. I need to approve, delete or mark spam to these comments. These comments are huge in numbers and look like spam.01 How to Disable Trackbacks, Pingbacks, and Self Pings in WordPress

 

Reason

I googled and found that these comments are called self-pingbacks. This means that if you link to one of your own articles on the same site, then WordPress would automatically send a pingback to itself.

 

Solution

To disable self pingbacks install the No Self Pings plugin from the plugin store and activate it to stop the self pingbacks when linking to previous posts in new blog posts

No Self Pings

 

Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

To stop trackbacks and pingbacks, then there is an option for you to disable them entirely. Follow the process given below to disable the pingbacks.

  • Go to the Settings » Discussion page02 How to Disable Trackbacks, Pingbacks, and Self Pings in WordPress
  • Uncheck Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) option.03 How to Disable Trackbacks, Pingbacks, and Self Pings in WordPress

Unchecking that box will only disable trackbacks and pingbacks for future posts (not existing posts).

Last Updated: August 15, 2020

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