Do you want to disable trackbacks and pingbacks on your old posts in WordPress? Trackbacks and pingbacks allow blogs to notify others that they have related articles. However, today it is mainly used by spammers to send trackbacks to spam sites. In this tutorial, we will show you how to disable trackbacks and pingbacks on articles in your WordPress blog.

How to turn off pingbacks and trackbacks

Why disable trackbacks and pings in WordPress?

In the early days of blogging, trackbacks and pingbacks have been touted as a way for blogs to stay informed about the inter-links they share.

Let's say you write an article and add a link to an article on your friend's blog. Your blog will then automatically ping their blog.

This pingback will then appear in their blog as a comment pending approval.

However, today this feature is mostly used by spammers to send thousands of fake trackbacks and pingsbacks. Even if you use Akismet, some of these trackbacks may still go into your comment moderation queue.

WordPress allows you to turn off this feature. You can do this by going to "Settings> Chat" and then uncheck the " Allow link notifications from other blogs (Pingbacks and trackbacks) On new products ».

Activation of wordpress blog trackers

However, it only does this on all new items. All your old articles will always have trackbacks and pingbacks enabled. WordPress will even add trackbacks to these articles when doing links on your own blog. Consult our guide to know how to disable auto-pingback.

Let's take a look at how to easily disable trackbacks and pingbacks on existing WordPress posts.

How to disable trackbacks on WordPress

First of all, you must visit " Articles> All Articles », Then click on« Screen options On the upper right corner of the screen.

Fixed pingback and trackback screen options

Now enter " 999 " beside " Number of items per page And click the apply button.

This will reload the article list, and it now displays up to 999 articles on the same page.

Then you must select all messages by checking the box next to the titles column.

Select all wordpress articles

After that, you must select " Edit In the grouped actions, then click on the button Apply ».

WordPress will now show you a bulk edit box of all posts.

In the bulk edit box, you should look for the option " pings And choose the option "Refuse".

Disabling pingbacks on wordpress articles

You then need to update any changes you just applied to your blog.

WordPress will now update and disable pings on all selected articles.

If you have more than 999 articles on your WordPress site, then you have to go to the next page and repeat the process.

That's all for this tutorial, I hope it will allow you to disable pings on your articles.