Title: Disable X-Pingback HTTP Header?
Last modified: September 21, 2022

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# Disable X-Pingback HTTP Header?

 *  Resolved [bronsonoquinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bronsonoquinn/)
 * (@bronsonoquinn)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-x-pingback-http-header/)
 * I’ve been using your plugin for several sites I maintain and like it. But I recently
   have been getting notifications from Google Search Console that the /xmlrpc.php
   file can’t be indexed. Obviously, I don’t want it indexed, so I wondered why 
   it was telling me this.
 * It turns out, some site aggregators are including the X-Pingback header on their
   pages, which is getting crawled by a Google bot.
 * So I was wondering if you’d be able to include an update that also removes this
   header information from HTTP requests. Here’s a Stack overflow topic about how
   to do it: [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/31943/is-there-a-way-to-completely-turn-off-pingbacks-trackbacks](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/31943/is-there-a-way-to-completely-turn-off-pingbacks-trackbacks)
 * Thanks!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdisable-x-pingback-http-header%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Amin Nazemi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aminnz/)
 * (@aminnz)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-x-pingback-http-header/#post-16043041)
 * Hi [@bronsonoquinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bronsonoquinn/)
 * Hope you are doing well.
 * It seems there is a bug in the last plugin version it should disable pingback
   by default, I will fix the issue in the next release.
 * Thank you for informing us.
 * Best regards
    Amin

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-x-pingback-http-header/#post-16043041)
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