How to Disable Trackbacks and Pings or Self Pingbacks on WordPress?

Trackbacks and Pings or Self Pingbacks allow blogs to notify each other that they have linked to a post. However, today it is mainly used by spammers to send trackbacks from spam websites.

There are two ways.

1. Custom code in function.php

function ec_disable_self_pingbacks( &$links ) {
foreach ( $links as $l => $link )
if ( 0 === strpos( $link, get_option( 'home' ) ) )
unset($links[$l]);
}
add_action( 'pre_ping', 'ec_disable_self_pingbacks' );

2. .htaccess

# Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx


Trackbacks and Pings or Self Pingbacks allow blogs to notify each other that they have linked to a post. However, today it is mainly used by spammers to send trackbacks from spam websites.

3. Using EC Addons