How to Disable Self Pings in WordPress?

What is self ping in WordPress?

What is link an article either your own or other sites article, then WordPress notifies that article owner about your article linking. Content owner has an option to approve or deny that notification.

In my opinion it’s not worth getting these kind of notifications for your own article linking. On Crunchify, we have disabled it as it’s not adding value.

How Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress?

Simple way to disable is to add below into WordPress theme’s functions.php file.

add_action( 'pre_ping', 'crunchify_no_self_ping' );

function crunchify_no_self_ping( &$links ) {
	$home = get_option( 'home' );
	foreach ( $links as $l => $link ) {
		if ( 0 === strpos( $link, $home ) ) {
			unset( $links[ $l ] );
		}
	}
}

Is there any other way to disable Self Pings using Plugin?

Yes.

• Download plugin Crunchy Optimizer.
• Enable toggle: Disable Self Pings.

That’s it. And you are all set.