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Stop pinging yourself

Stops WordPress from sending self-pingbacks when posts link to other posts on the same site. Set it once, forget it exists.

This plugin is legacy / archived (GitHub repository archived). It remains listed for history and existing installs — not a primary product.

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When you link from one post to another on your own site, WordPress treats it like a link from a stranger and sends itself a pingback. You get a notification, and sometimes a comment, for talking to yourself. I wrote this to stop the self-pings while leaving real pingbacks from other sites alone. What you get Blocks pingbacks that point from your site back to your own site Leaves pingbacks from external sites working, so you still hear when someone else links to you No settings. It checks the link source and only kills the ones that came from you. Who it's for Anyone who links between their own posts often and is tired of the noise, but still wants to know when other sites link in. WordPress 4.7 added a setting under Discussion to turn off self-pingbacks, so core can now do part of this. The difference: the native setting is all or nothing, and this plugin lets you silence only the self-p

Slug stop-pinging-yourself · wordpress.org/plugins/stop-pinging-yourself-for-wordpress/ · github.com/thisismyurl/stop-pinging-yourself-for-wordpress (archived)