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How to Disable WordPress Self Pingbacks

December 6, 2017 by AMAN SINGH Leave a Comment

When you interlinking posts on pingbacks enabled site,  WordPress automatically creates new pingback for that post and this pingback appears in the comment section.

There are many WordPress users who love this pingback feature but some users do not find it useful. 

One of our users asked how to disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress site. If you are looking for this article, then you are in the right place.

Here i’m going to share best and easy way to disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress.

Brief Descriptions of The Content

    • What is WordPress Pingback
  • How to Disable WordPress Self Pingbacks
    • #1. Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress Using Plugins
    • #2. Disable Self Pings Without Plugin

What is WordPress Pingback

A pingback is an automated comment when someone links your posts, you will get a trackback or pingback notification. Today, pingbacks are only used for spam and spammer is using it too much.

How to Disable WordPress Self Pingbacks

You can easily disable WordPress Self Pingbacks with different methods. Here I’ll turn off Self-Ping with plugins and without plugin.

So, let’s get started to Disable Self-pingback on WordPress…

#1. Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress Using Plugins

There are two plugins that easily disable WordPress Self Pingbacks from your site.

a. Using No Self Pings Plugin

First, install and activate No Self Pings plugin on your site.

Once activated, you do not need to configure anything. This is a plug & play plugin without any extra configuration. Just activate plugin will automatically stop WordPress pingback (self-comment).

b. Using Disabler Plugin

Just install and activate Disabler plugin on your WordPress site. With Disabler, you can disable Self Ping, Autosaving of posts, Post Revisions, RSS Feeds, XML-RPC.

After activating the plugin, it will add a new menu item under your Setting section with Disabler label. Click on Settings >> Disabler option. This will take you to the settings page of the plugin.

Here scroll down to the Back End Settings section and check the Disable self-pings box. As you can see in the screenshot,

How Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress

Now click on the Save changes button. The plugin will automatically disable WordPress Self Pingback on your site.

#2. Disable Self Pings Without Plugin

By default, WordPress allows to Disable Self Pingbacks from your site. Simply go to Settings >> Discussion section. Here uncheck the box Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the articleand click on Save changes button.

How Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress

You have successfully disabled WordPress Self Pingbacks from your site.

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