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timethief on "Intra-site link is a ping-back and a comment?"

timethief — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:59:04 +0000

Here's how to disable self-pings > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/#can-i-stop-self-pings
I don't bother. I approve the ones I want to approve and send the others to Trash.

raincoaster on "Intra-site link is a ping-back and a comment?"

raincoaster — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:24:06 +0000

You can disable pingbacks under Settings->Discussion I believe. You're not doing anything wrong. It works this way on Wp.com.

onegreenstone on "Intra-site link is a ping-back and a comment?"

onegreenstone — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:00:01 +0000

When I link from a page that I'm editing to another page on my own blog, it always generates a ping-back item in my "recent comments" list. This seems wrong. An intra-site link is neither a ping-back nor a comment, and I should not have to approve it anyway since I am the author of the site. What's the deal here? Is there a way to restrict the comments list to actual comments? I want to do lots of intra-site links but I don't want them cluttering up my comments list. Am I doing something wrong?

panaghiotisadam on "Links within posts from own blog"

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:03:44 +0000

You're welcome!

heckate on "Links within posts from own blog"

heckate — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:31:09 +0000

ahhhhhhhhh i get it now! thank you so much for the link. i figured it had something to do with the pingbacks but did nt know how to disable just mine.

many thanks to you!

panaghiotisadam on "Links within posts from own blog"

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:49:29 +0000

You can disable pingbacks in general (for published posts you go to Posts > All Posts and bulk edit them to uncheck "Allow Pings"; for future posts you go to Settings > Discussion and uncheck the option "Allow link notifications from other blogs"). Or you can prevent self pings only, by using a truncated URL form - see here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/

heckate on "Links within posts from own blog"

heckate — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:12:40 +0000

Whenever i create a post and link to another post (of my own) i get a comment notification and have to approve it.

for example:

blah blah on this topic click HERE for more.

is there anyway to work around this? (and yes, i searched the forums for this topic and came up with nothing relevant)

timethief on "Problem referencing my own blog postings"

timethief — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:35:06 +0000

How to disable self pings > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/#can-i-stop-self-pings

redkeyhole on "Problem referencing my own blog postings"

redkeyhole — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:54:25 +0000

My posts frequently cite and link to some of my previous blog posts. I have used the Link tool in the Add New Post window to do this. It does work, BUT WordPress seems to treat this as a "pingback", so I am getting dozens of pingbacks from my own links to my own posts. What this also means is that I get all these as both "comments" to deal with and as Email notices to my default Email address.

Is there a way to include a link to my own posts without triggering pingbacks, redundant "comments", etc.?

Thanks - Red Keyhole

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:21:09 +0000

Doesn't work anyway. Oh well.

Staff recommended full moderation so that any of my comments would require moderation It doesn't work -- my blog recognizes me as the administrator and posts my comments anyway. I'm just going to have to delete all my pingbacks after they are posted. I sure hope that doesn't ruin things and causes errors on my google webmaster.

timethief on "pingback"

timethief — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:03:10 +0000

I'm doing this: full moderation and moderating my own pingbacks out
I'm not putting my own IP into and IP block list. My IP changes frequently and I'm not convinced that's a good idea.

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:16:04 +0000

Hey, I think I just figured it out. I can set my IP address in this section under "discussion > moderation. "

That way, whenever I post a comment to my own blog, it will need to be moderated.

That's the only way I can think of a work-around.

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:12:35 +0000

Hi, I got a reply to my email to support. Nothing was said about offering this in the future. The only thing is to either do that which was stated in the support page which did not work for me and even if it did, it's much too time consuming. The only other thing that was suggested is setting blog to full moderation and moderating my own pingbacks out. I just may do that as I really, really don't like the pingbacks from my own posts showing up in the comments.

My next question -- is there a way to set a particular person to moderation? If so, I will set myself as needing to be moderated. Right now, I have my blog set on partial moderation -- that is, first time commenters need moderation and after that, no moderation is needed. I would like to set myself on full moderation. Is there a way to do that? I looked but could not find a way but perhaps there is a way and I just can't figure it out.

Thanks!

timethief on "pingback"

timethief — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:19:18 +0000

@tishrei
Thanks for the update. :)

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:45:35 +0000

I sent a message to support staff linking back to this post. It would be GREAT to have that option. I don't know how hard it will be for them to make that available but hopefully they will think about it.

timethief on "pingback"

timethief — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:29:35 +0000

I have experienced the same thing with my commenters as well. I strongly desire to have the ability to eliminate self pinging easily and effectively, without mucking about with shortened and experiencing failure.

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:16:14 +0000

Thanks timethief.

Maybe support will see this and come up with a way. I just don't like to have my recent comments filled with my own self pingbacks. I only have five recent comments showing and when I post, all the people that commented have their comments pushed down so that only my pingbacks show.

timethief on "pingback"

timethief — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:13:16 +0000

Unfortunately, I could not get it to work. When I used that format, the page would not open. Also, I was hoping there might be a way to turn off pingbacks for my own posts as doing it the way suggested would be extremely time consuming.

I'm with on in this. I have had the same experience and it's extremely annoying. I also want the ability to disable self-pings.

tishrei on "pingback"

tishrei — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:01:17 +0000

I use Zemanta to list related posts in my blog creating a pingback. Since they are my own posts, they show up under my recent comments. I do not wish to have my own posts show up as pingbacks in my recent comments on my side board. Is there a way to prevent that?

I looked in support and found this:

Normally when you create a link, the entire URL including http:// is used. That will cause a self ping.

To prevent self-pings, shorten the URL from this:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/twitter-widget

to this:
/2009/03/26/twitter-widget

Note: The visual editor may add the domain information back into the link. To check that, you must switch to the HTML editor and make sure the link is displayed correctly in the href attribute for the link before publishing.

Unfortunately, I could not get it to work. When I used that format, the page would not open. Also, I was hoping there might be a way to turn off pingbacks for my own posts as doing it the way suggested would be extremely time consuming.

Thanks!