Title: Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments
Author: Pau Iglesias
Published: <strong>April 29, 2015</strong>
Last modified: August 31, 2015

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# Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments

 By [Pau Iglesias](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/remove-pingback-trackback-comments.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/)

## Description

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 particular post type.

This plugin provides a single one step form to do these changes, but previously 
it’s strongelly recommended you perform a database backup.

Once completed this process, you will not receive more pingbacks or trackbacks unless
you do not change posts or blog notifications configuration.

## Screenshots

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 * Blog comments info overview, and the remove pingback-trackback form.
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 * This options will be unchecked by this plugin once submitting the form.

## Installation

 1. Unzip and upload remove-pingback-trackback-comments folder to the `/wp-content/
    plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to menu Tools > Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments to start the updating process

## FAQ

  How can I know if I need to delete pingbacks and trackbaks?

You can delete them if you are tired of pingback/trackback spam or continuous validation
to approve them, or just if you consider a chaos to mix them with comments or it’s
an irrelevant info. But if you think it’s something important to reference other
blogs or topics, and provide your users more scope about the posts content, then
you should not delete them.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[This plugin helped me. Thanks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-helped-me-thanks/)󠁿

 [brabrubra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brabrubra/) January 29, 2019

This plugin helped me. Thanks

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Perfect plugin, one-click and everything is set as I wanted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-plugin-one-click-and-everything-is-set-as-i-wanted/)󠁿

 [StudioWebB](https://profiles.wordpress.org/studiowebb/) January 12, 2018

Perfect plugin, one-click and everything is set as I wanted

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f68b7fb5fae37f85edface16173153ef8538f74ac97ad359daf77eb0183fff36?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Resolveu com 1 clique](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolveu-com-1-clique/)󠁿

 [pedroarmindo1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pedroarmindo1/) September 3, 2016

Estava com mais de 75.429 pingbacks and trackbaks, quase todos spam. Com isso o 
Google identificava meu site como malicioso. O plugin resolveu tudo com um clique.
www.eusouandroid.com

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Pau Iglesias ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)
 *   [ Blogestudio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blogestudio/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

Release Date: April 26th, 2015

 * First and tested released until WordPress 4.2
 * Tested code from WordPress 3.3.2 version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/)
 * Tags
 * [comment](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comment/)[comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
   [pingback](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pingback/)[pingbacks](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pingbacks/)
   [trackback](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/trackback/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-pingback-trackback-comments/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Pau Iglesias ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)
 *   [ Blogestudio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blogestudio/)

## Support

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