How to Change the Trackback Ping Default on WordPress
WordPress has features that allow it to automatically notify other blog owners when you reference their blogs in a post. Likewise, when another blog owner references your blog, the reference appears as a comment on the referenced post on your website, with a link to the post referencing it. If you do not want your post to contain comments that link to other websites and do not want to notify other websites when you reference them, you can disable both of these functions in the WordPress dashboard.
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Instructions
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Open the "Settings" section on the left side of the WordPress dashboard, and click "Discussion."
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Remove the check from the "Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article" box at the top of the page to prevent your blog from pinging other blogs when you link to them.
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Remove the check from the "Allow link notifications from other blogs" box to prevent pingbacks from appearing in the comments section of your posts when other blogs link to them.
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Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page.
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Tips & Warnings
You can override the default settings for pingbacks from other websites for an individual post by clicking the "Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page" check box at the bottom of the post editing screen.
