How to Stop Wordpress from Pinging Itself
March 17th, 2008
WordPress by default sends pings to your own site every time you link to other posts on your own blog. This appears as a pingback on the post you have linked to, in the comments section. Some people might see this as a feature, allowing you to leave a trail of related posts. I find it messy.
Here’s how to stop it
The very simplest solution is to just use relative urls. So instead of linking like this:
<a href="http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/03/17/half-a-sexy-fish/" />
Use relative URLs
<a href="/web/2008/03/17/half-a-sexy-fish/" />
I’d argue that this is good practice anyway. If you don’t want to do that, then there’s a simple plugin, which (apparently) requires no configuration. Just unzip it into your plugins directory and activate it.
Posted in Web | Tagged with: hacks, plugins, tips, wordpress
November 6th, 2008 at 3:36 am
And there is what some alternative?
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:19 pm
You have mentioned very interesting points ! ps nice website .
April 5th, 2011 at 6:27 am
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July 3rd, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Thanks for the plugin suggestion, but it seems out of date (works with up to 3.0.5). Do you know of any plugins that would do the same for current WP versions?