Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments
One step process to remove pingbacks and trackbacks and leave only real user opinions in your posts comments.
5(3 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments is a WordPress comment plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Comments – wpDiscuz.
5/53 reviews
100active installs
4.7K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
When your blog posts receive pingbacks and trackbacks usually they are displayed together with user opinions.
But if you don’t like to see this additional data, or you think pingbacks and trackbacks are not valuable for your blog, here is a tool to remove them.
This plugin allows you to delete all pingbacks and trackbacks comments from your blog, leaving only user comments.
Furthermore turns to closed the ping status of existing posts still allowing new notifications, avoiding them future pingbacks or trackbacks.
And for new posts, to avoid more notifications, updates the default post ping status value to closed (this option is available in Discussion Settings section).
Full support for any kind of custom post types. There is a filter for developers if you want to exclude a particul…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3.2+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
Release Date: April 26th, 2015
- First and tested released until WordPress 4.2
- Tested code from WordPress 3.3.2 version.
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