Preventing Self Pings

If you have pingbacks switched on for your WordPress site (Settings -> Discussion and then tick ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) 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.

	<?php
	function no_self_pings( $links ) {

	foreach ( $links as $loop => $link ) {
	if ( 0 === strpos( $link, get_option( 'home' ) ) ) { unset( $links[ $loop ] ); }
	}
	}
	add_action( 'pre_ping', 'no_self_pings' );
	?>

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

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