Title: Disable pingback
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Disable pingback

 *  [Matoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matoo/)
 * (@matoo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/)
 * I’m getting annoying trackback and pingback spams for a while, that cannot (of
   course) be filtered by my captcha plugin. I’m not using trackback or pingback,
   so I’d prefer deactivate them. I can delete the wp-trackback.php file, but I 
   cannot find the one for pingback ?
 * I know the advice is to use spamkarma2 for instance, and I’ve tested that. But
   it always triggers new database entries and IDs that I’d like to avoid (am I 
   right ?).

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551312)
 * > triggers new database entries and IDs
 * Well, those are in the spam karma tables. Why would that be an issue to you?
 * You might also consider running Bad Behavior — it’ll stop a lot of the junk before
   it ever hits your blog.
 * Moving on: Visit Options -> Discussion. Uncheck “Allow link notifications from
   other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)” That will disable ping/trackbacks 
   going forward for all new posts.
    For old posts, you can either edit each old
   post individually and disable the same (check the right sidebar while on the 
   edit posts page) or search here in the forums for a SQL query to run manually
   to get ’em all in one fell swoop.
 *  Thread Starter [Matoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matoo/)
 * (@matoo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551345)
 * I unchecked the option/discussion box, but indeed for the old posts it’s a bit
   complicated (I have more than 2000 posts, hu hu).
 * For the database, I just though it would grow my sql database for nothing… that’s
   all in fact (as well as going to the admin interface to periodically flush everything).
 * I’ll search for the routine to update all the entries directly from a SQL query.
 * Thank you very much for your answer HandySolo.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551347)
 * For what it’s worth, Spam Karma 2 is self-pruning.
 *  Thread Starter [Matoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matoo/)
 * (@matoo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551349)
 * Self-pruning ? (I’m sorry, english is not my mother tongue… and looking at definitions
   through the web, I cannot see what you mean…)
 * By the way, I found the info and ran successfully the SQL query, thanks to [this link](http://ckunte.com/archives/closing-pingbacks-for-all-posts-in-wordpress).
 * Thank you again for your kind support !
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551362)
 * Self-pruning: It doesn’t grow endlessly. It manages the logs so that they don’t
   get too big and take all your space.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-pingback/#post-551362)
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