How do I stop links to other posts in same weblog producing a pingback?

There are some of us who actually appreciated the ability to selectively tick that checkbox for pingbacking in 1.2… As far as I’m concerned, removing it was a mistake for 1.5.xxx. I’m disappointed that it appears pingbacks is falling by the wayside in WP for no other reason than disinterest by the developers.

Yeah, the pingback output was pretty ugly; but I found that to be a plus, because they were very easy to visually identify when scanning through comments. Plus, I rigged them to include the pinging post’s title (here’s an example).

Now, to avoid the hassle of changing the Options on a per-post basis, I just resort to trackbacks for intra-blog linking (which I do a lot, and can’t imagine not taking advantage of). It does the job, but it involves an extra step I wish wasn’t ncessary.

Some spirited discussion here. I fall in the don’t-want-those-ugly-pingbacks-in-my-comments and hate-those-stupid-emails camp myself, but I see the point of those who think automated forward linking is a good idea. So what’s the best solution? Hacking the functions.php (which will disappear next time I update,) using gregh’s plugin (but I don’t even want to moderate those pingbacks,) or disabling pingbacks altogether? I really think there ought to be user-set options, and I think the active debate here shows that.

Woah! Forget the hack functions.php option. It results in “Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in …/wp-includes/functions.php on line 747.” The hack was a year old, and it looked like it would work, but it doesn’t.

So, has anyone come up with a real solution to this? Deleting emails and self-pingbacks is getting sort of old.

The answer is above, and in other threads in the forums.

To summarise, when linking to your own posts, use a relative path, not the full path.

So instead of

<a href="https://www.domain.com/wordpress/2006/09/14/a-cool-old-post">I wrote this yesterday</a>

Use this:

<a href="/wordpress/2006/09/14/a-cool-old-post">I wrote this yesterday</a>

Do that, and you won’t get a ping.

Schnawsome. I’ll do that from now on. Thanks, Les.

You can use absolute links. Just use this plugin: No Self Pings

WordPress has this quirk of resending pings when I re-save a post. Is there any way to prevent those duplicate pings? Those ones are even more annoying!