Those probably pingbacks not trackbacks…
Anyway, you might find helpful this post:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35102#post-198471
Yes, you’re right. They’re pingbacks. If I understood correctly, the thread you pointed me to suggests disabling all pingbacks which isn’t what I want to do. I only want to stop self-pings.
But thanks for pointing out the link to me.
1. Deactivating will stop only the outgoing pings. Incoming pings still work.
2. You can still send trackbacks to any external site – and I agree with other posters: with them you are more in control.
3. The last post in that thread (and several others, if you do a search for self ping/ing) suggest not to use absolute path when pointing to an earlier post of yours – in this way the self-pinging is avoided.
Point 3 was esp. helpful. Can you give me an example of a URL with “absolute path” & non-absolute path? I think I’ve seen shortened paths before in WP blogs, but can’t remember the protocol.
Keep in mind that relative paths break when viewed in many feedreaders.
relative paths are “/blog/uri/to/post” as opposed to “http://blog.com/blog/uri/to/post”
So if my full permalink is:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2005/09/new-orleans-the-day-the-music-died/
then my relative path would be:
tikun_olam/2005/09/new-orleans-the-day-the-music-died/
Is that right?
UPDATE: I just did a test of the relative path solution & after creating the link I’m getting one unwanted addition to the final permalink so it comes out like this in the post:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/wp-admin/tikun_olam/2005/09/new-orleans-the-day-the-music-died/
The “/wp-admin/” is screwing up the link. I must still be missing something.
UPDATE 2: Just figured out my mistake…I was missing an “/” before tikun_olam. Now I’ve got it working. Thanks for yr. reply above, masquerade.
Good to know about the feedreader issue, but I’m not expecting to use relative paths all that often so it shouldn’t become a big issue.
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You forgot the forward slash at the beginning of your relative path. It should be:
/tikun_olam/2005/09/new-orleans-the-day-the-music-died/
So are we still stuck with this as the only solution? Use relative paths to avoid self-pingbacks?
There has to be a better way… anyone found anything? Browsing the support forum is revealing nothing new.
Edit: Never mind, the plugin above is the better way.
