{4 Easy Steps} – Enable and Disable Pingbacks and Trackbacks in WordPress

Pingbacks and Trackbacks are methods in WordPress that alert blogs that you have linked to them. Difference between them is :

Pingbacks – Pingbacks give software the ability to communicate with websites.

Trackbacks – Trackbacks gives bloggers the ability to communicate between websites.

Linking notifications such as trackbacks and pingbacks let you monitor other websites that link to your material. You can allow these alerts in WordPress to have them show up in your comment area. While trackbacks and pingbacks facilitate communication amongst bloggers, they still need to be mindful of the bots that inadvertently place spam links on your website. Therefore, it is generally recommended that you disable trackbacks and pingbacks; nevertheless, you are free to enable them if you so choose and only do so if you are certain that you will use them.

Enable and Disable Pingbacks and Trackbacks
Follow these steps :

1. Log in to WordPress as an administrator.

2. On the left side of the WordPress dashboard, click Settings, and then click on Discussion.

3. Go to Default article settings section

Enable notifications :
To enable pingbacks and trackbacks, select Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) check box.

Disable notification :
To disable pingbacks and trackbacks, un-tick the Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) check box.

4. Click on Save changes.

That’s it. Now enable and disable the notifications as per your preference.

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