Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Alternatives to Follow Self Pings
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WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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Prevents trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up as comments on posts.
Send and receive Webmentions in WordPress.
Plugin disable self trackback (comments)
Fixora disable xml-rpc and xmlrpc pingback with a blocked-attempt log—see recent blocks in Settings.
Automatically add rel="nofollow" to external and outbound links to improve SEO, protect link equity, and control outbound link behavior.
Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.
Detects internal links in posts and automatically inserts a pingback-style comment on each linked post. No XML-RPC required.
Keep internal pingbacks while restricting outgoing WordPress pingbacks to your own site and explicitly approved URLs.