Title: Self-pingback
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Self-pingback

 *  [varsity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varsity/)
 * (@varsity)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/)
 * This stopped for a while, but with 2.0.4 is back again. I make a post in which
   I link to an older post, and I create a pingback to myself that has to be manually
   deleted.
 * Surely it is only logical to discard pingbacks from the same blog?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-429679)
 * Nope, not logical at all. And for some (like me) preferred. If I refer to one
   of my old posts, I like the pingback on that old post. Thus, if someone googles
   into that article, they can see that there’s an update or continuation.
 * That being said, you can of course, negate the autoping by specifying the link
   to your old post as relative instead of absolute. For example, if the post is
   at http://mydomain.com/myblog/month/day/slug just link to it at `/myblog/month/
   day/slug`. WP won’t do the pingback on a relative url.
 *  Thread Starter [varsity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varsity/)
 * (@varsity)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-429704)
 * Which is all very well until someone clicks the link in a feed reader.
 * I’d be very grateful for a plugin, if any exist…
 *  [ganges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganges/)
 * (@ganges)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-430267)
 * What You meen, Varsity, please
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-430268)
 * try [http://robert.accettura.com/projects/absoluterss/](http://robert.accettura.com/projects/absoluterss/)
 * You do relative urls, as suggested, in your posts to avoid self pingbacks. Then
   this plugin fixes ’em in your RSS feed.
 *  [ganges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganges/)
 * (@ganges)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-430269)
 * Yes, thanks, but i want autoping, is it “dangerous” to some RSS readers, what
   happens?
    Thanx a lot
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-430270)
 * You have autoping by default. The thread you elected to join is a discussion 
   about REMOVING it.
 * Using relative urls is way to avoid self-pingbacks. However, relative URLs in
   your feed don’t go anywhere. And before I write a book, just click that link 
   I provided for more info.
 *  [ganges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganges/)
 * (@ganges)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-pingback/#post-430271)
 * I am a moron, pardon.
    🙂

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