Title: Disabling Pingbacks/Trackbacks on Pages Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Disabling Pingbacks/Trackbacks on Pages * [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/) * I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately on my site, but it’s all been through PAGES instead of POSTS. * I’ve got trackbacks disabled globally for posts for a while, but I haven’t figured out a way to disable trackbacks on PAGES. * A few support places have suggested disabling them through this SQL query: * `UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'page';` * . . . but I wanted to know if there were any other options out there. * Thanks! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) * [jasonpaulweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonpaulweber/) * (@jasonpaulweber) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620249) * You can disable comments on pages by going to wp-admin / pages / all pages, and clicking **quick edit** (instead of edit). There, you can disable comments for the page. * Have you gone to wp-admin / settings / discussion … and disabled trackbacks and pingbacks there? * Or try this plugin … for [eliminating self-trackbacks](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/). * [jasonpaulweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonpaulweber/) * (@jasonpaulweber) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620254) * Or try putting this php file in your mu-plugins or plugins folder: * ``` ). add_action('wp', function(){ remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); }, 9); // Hijack pingback_url for get_bloginfo (). add_filter('bloginfo_url', function($output, $property){ return ($property == 'pingback_url') ? null : $output; }, 11, 2); // Just disable pingback.ping functionality while leaving XMLRPC intact? add_action('xmlrpc_call', function($method){ if($method != 'pingback.ping') return; wp_die( 'Pingback functionality is disabled on this Blog.', 'Pingback Disabled!', array('response' => 403) ); }); ?> ``` * Thread Starter [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620258) * Thanks for the response! * I’ve had trackbacks/pingbacks disabled through wp-admin/settings/discussion for a while now, but that seems to only affect **posts**, not **pages**. * Disabling comments one-by-one seems a little impractical in my case, especially since I also seem to be getting trackbacks on attachment pages, which aren’t accessible through wp-admin/pages/all pages. * I might try out that little mini plugin, although I’m averse to adding more plugins to my install and would rather use another method. * Thanks again for the help! * [jasonpaulweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonpaulweber/) * (@jasonpaulweber) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620268) * I’d be more adverse to altering your core WP or core theme files. You’ll have to keep a changelog handy, as everytime you update your WP or theme, you’ll lose your changes. * Yes, too many plugins can bog things down a bit, but not a mini plugin like this. You can always use the [P3 Plugin Profiler](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/p3-profiler/) to determine which plugins are adding the most to your page load times … Jetpack and various types of lightbox plugins being some of the more notable culprits. * Thread Starter [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620386) * Thanks for the advice, Jason. I’ll try out the plugin and see how it goes. * Thread Starter [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620402) * Saved the script you posted as a PHP file in the plugins folder and I’m still getting a ton of trackback spam, close to or over 1,000 a day. I’m not sure if I did something wrong in saving the script, or if it’s just plain not working. * [jasonpaulweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonpaulweber/) * (@jasonpaulweber) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620404) * If you saved it to your plugins folder, you’ll have to activate it. If you save it to your MU-Plugins folder (MU = must use, then it will automatically activate. * But that script wasn’t personally tested by me. I had a friend who used it. I’ll look around for a separate solution. * Thread Starter [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620519) * Plugin didn’t work for me. Might have been my incompetence in installing it, but I tried it in both the regular plugins directory and the mu-plugins directory. * Still getting hundreds of instances of trackback spam every day. Not sure what else to do to stop it, other than marking pages of comments as spam every day. * Any other help would be greatly appreciated. * Thread Starter [ghindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghindo/) * (@ghindo) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620528) * What would I do to just strip out the commenting/pingback functionality of a page template altogether? Would that solve the issue? * [maryfran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryfran/) * (@maryfran) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620541) * I thought that there may be a place to add tracbacks to the Quick Edit list on pages. I have been getting trash and spam. I will continue to go through all of my pages and turn it off. * [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620567) * sunny greetings from Diani beach maryfran, I was also trying to disable it as it was rare for me to get a proper ping, all are spam most of the time. I spent some time looking up how to disable it. I found a post how to do it easy, but I am not sure if it works as I still did not have time to try. * Hope it helps, July * [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620568) * oh, here is the link to that post [](http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-disable-pingbacks-trackbacks-in-5-seconds/) * [garratt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garratt/) * (@garratt) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620569) * Not sure that post is the best suggestion as call to that file will simply cause errors, yes it will _fix_ the problem, but only temporarily. * I suggest something a little less extreme, and something that won’t be _broken_ the next time WordPress updates and recreates the file you deleted. * [how to disable trackbacks](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-trackbacks-and-pings-on-existing-wordpress-posts/) * The problem is existing posts/pages don’t get updated when you select to not have trackbacks. The above link will fix that. * [garratt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garratt/) * (@garratt) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620570) * sorry updated my post with a link you can use. * [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/#post-3620571) * I do not know why but it was realy giving me a hard time to paste the link here. * The 3rd try, here is the link: [how to disable the trackbacks and ping backs](http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-disable-pingbacks-trackbacks-in-5-seconds/) * Once again, I am not sure if it is working. I hope it helps:-) * July Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Disabling Pingbacks/Trackbacks on Pages’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [pingback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingback/) * [trackback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trackback/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-pingbackstrackbacks-on-pages/page/2/#post-3620577) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics