Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments
One step process to remove pingbacks and trackbacks and leave only real user opinions in your posts comments.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 31 Aug 2015
- Added
- Apr 2015
- Requires WP
- 3.3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 4.3.34
- Downloads
- 4,940
Our analysis
AI-assistedRemove Pingback-Trackback Comments is a WordPress plugin that allows you to eliminate pingbacks and trackbacks from your blog posts. It removes these notifications while retaining user comments, providing a cleaner comment section. The plugin is suitable for users who prefer not to display pingbacks and trackbacks, streamlining their comment management.
Best for: This plugin is best for bloggers who want to simplify their comment sections by removing pingbacks and trackbacks.
What it does well
- ✓Removes pingbacks and trackbacks from blog posts
- ✓Retains user comments for a cleaner display
- ✓Updates post ping status to closed for new posts
- ✓Supports custom post types
- ✓Includes a filter for developers
Where it falls short
- •Requires a database backup before making changes
- •Limited information on user experience or support
Verdict
Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments provides a straightforward solution for managing comment notifications. It is a practical choice for those looking to customise their blog's comment settings.
From the developer
Pau Iglesias's own description of Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments, lightly tidied.
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.