Keep your site privacy and automatic pingbacks!
As of April 2026, Only Self Pings is a WordPress pings plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Attachment Page Comment Control.
Pingbacks are automatic notifications added (as a kind of comment) to posts you link to in your articles. Whether a visitor is reading something way back in your archives or your most recent post, the pingbacks makes sure she can easily find any follow ups.
This is great for keeping related articles together, but private blogs are forced to disable Pingbacks to avoid notifying other sites when linking to them!
“Only Self Pings” solves this by only allowing pings to your own site (and whatever URLs you add to the whitelist).
Copyright (C) 2012 Ulf Benjaminsson (hello at my full name dot com).
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| WordPress | 3.9+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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