This weeks edition of WordPress Wednesday is brought to you by the little plugin “No Self Pings.” We all agree that backlinking to older posts is good for your blog. It keeps those older posts fresh and gives your readers a better chance to find those hidden gems. There is a downside to those internal backlinks, “comment clutter.” Comment clutter is all of those internal pingbacks that appear in the comments of the linked-to post.
Sure, there are those of you out there that think the more comments that appear in a post, the more authoritative it will appear. For those of you out there that think this way, the No Self Pings plugin is NOT for you.
However, if you would rather avoid the unnecessary clutter, you may want to consider the No Self Pings plugin. This plugin is very focused in what it sets out to accomplish. Its one simple task is to stop your blog from listing these pingbacks in your blog posts.
Installation is a snap. Download the plugin, copy the folder to your plugins folder, and activate it on your plugins page. How do you feel about comment clutter?
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#1 by Jon Lee at August 22nd, 2007
Nice find on the plug-in! Does it remove existing self-trackbacks?
#2 by Jason Spence at August 22nd, 2007
Unfortunately, no. All my existing self-trackbacks are still there, but no more clutter going forward.
#3 by Jon Lee at August 22nd, 2007
That’s too bad, I guess it wouldn’t be too hard to whip up an SQL query to go thru the database deleting trackbacks originating from your domain