How to Disable Trackback and Pingback from WordPress Posts

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When someone links your post, you will get a trackback or pingback notification in your WordPress dashboard or email. However you can moderate it by going to the WordPress comment section.





In today's era, trackback is no longer useful. Many sites use it to create backlinks. As a result, this method makes a lot of spam comments and increases the server's CPU and memory load.





Furthermore, spammers use to send trackbacks from spam websites.





In this tutorial, I'll show you how to completely disable trackbacks and pings on WordPress.





How to Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks Completely on WordPress Site?





WordPress trackback and pingback are a great feature that notifies us when someone links to our post. But now this feature is mainly using spammers to send spam links.





By following the steps below, you can easily stop trackback and pingback on your WordPress posts.





If you use the Akismet plugin, then this plugin will help you avoid such spam. Here is a tutorial on how to get free Akismet API key for WordPress.





So let us come to our topic and disable Trackback and Pingback...





You can disable Trackback and Pingback from your WordPress site by going to the default Setting section.





Click on Settings >> Discussion option. Then uncheck “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles” box.





How to Disable Trackback and Pingback from WordPress Posts




You have successfully disabled Trackback and Pingback from your WordPress site. But it will only be disabled on new articles you publish.





To disable trackback and pingback from old WordPress Posts, click on Posts >> All Posts page and select All posts. As you can see in the screenshot below.





How to Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks Completely on WordPress Site?




Next, select the “Edit” button from drop down menu and hit on the “Apply” button.





How to Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks Completely on WordPress Site?




Here you will find some new options that will have Ping options as well. Just change it to "Do not allow".





How to Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks Completely on WordPress Site?




Now, click on Update button. WordPress will stop sending pings from your selected posts.





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