Title: Essential Header Items
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Essential Header Items

 *  Resolved [ulyssesr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulyssesr/)
 * (@ulyssesr)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-header-items/)
 * I was just checking my theme’s header. The question is, is there any reason why
   most themes have the code below. Are they really necessary? If not, can I remove
   them from the header?
 *     ```
       <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
       <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
       ```
   
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Micah Cooksey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micahcooksey/)
 * (@micahcooksey)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-header-items/#post-1404522)
 * The pingback url is for, as the name implies, pingbacks. Read about them here:
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks),
   then the archive function is for your archives. So, I’d say leave ’em in there.
 *  Thread Starter [ulyssesr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulyssesr/)
 * (@ulyssesr)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-header-items/#post-1404558)
 * Thanks. I’ll leave em there. It’s just the layout is ugly. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-header-items/#post-1404558)
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