Preventing Self Pings

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If you have pingbacks switched on for your WordPress site ⁱ on new articles’) then one annoyance is ‘self pings’ when you link to one of your posts from another.

Well, self pings can be prevented with a simple script, added to your functions.php file.

And that’s it. There are no settings – just peace in your inbox.

1. Settings -> Discussion and then tick ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks[↩]