pingbacks

For pingbacks, it seems only the linked page/post and the page/post it linked from are sent. Check out the pingback() function, specifically this line: $client->query( ‘pingback.ping’, $pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto ); … where $client is an instance of WP_HTTP_IXR_Client. The query method uses IXR_Request to package up a simple XML document: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <methodCall> <methodName>pingback.ping</methodName> <params> <param> … Read more

Changing the global Trackbacks setting via Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion will only change the default behavior. If you currently have existing posts/pages with trackbacks enabled, changing the default setting will not change the per-post setting. You will need to go to Dashboard -> Posts, select all posts, and batch-edit them to disable trackbacks. (Then … Read more

You could try this by putting code in functions.php in your theme. function no_self_ping( &$links ) { $home = get_option( ‘home’ ); foreach ( $links as $l => $link ) if ( 0 === strpos( $link, $home ) ) unset($links[$l]); } add_action( ‘pre_ping’, ‘no_self_ping’ ); Hope this helpful to you.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say they are pretty useless, in fact I would say they are even a nuisance. The idea was novel when it first came out and it was for a brief moment useful, but those days are over. I never enable pingbacks because they seem to … Read more

<?php /* Plugin Name: [RPC] XMLRPCless Blog Plugin URI: http://earnestodev.com/ Description: Disable XMLRPC advertising/functionality blog-wide. Version: 0.0.7 Author: EarnestoDev Author URI: http://earnestodev.com/ */ // Disable X-Pingback HTTP Header. add_filter(‘wp_headers’, function($headers, $wp_query){ if(isset($headers[‘X-Pingback’])){ // Drop X-Pingback unset($headers[‘X-Pingback’]); } return $headers; }, 11, 2); // Disable XMLRPC by hijacking and blocking the option. add_filter(‘pre_option_enable_xmlrpc’, function($state){ return ‘0’; … Read more

It’s “Pingback” What is Pingback? Pingbacks (also known as trackbacks) are a form of automated comment for a page or post, created when another WordPress blog links to that page or post. When you publish a new blog post, WordPress attempts to ‘ping‘ all the sites that were linked to in your post. i.e. Your … Read more