2024-07-12 – Deaktivert Trackbacks og Pingbacks

Step 3: Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks

If you don’t use trackbacks and pingbacks on your WordPress site, disable them. You can do this with a plugin, as we’ll see in a moment, or you can go to Settings > Discussion and uncheck the boxes next to Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article and Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles.

Changing these settings will still allow trackbacks and pingbacks to be turned on for individual posts and pages. So a better option is to use a plugin that will completely lock down pingbacks and trackbacks once and for all. I’ll show you how in just a moment.

There are at least two good reasons why you should consider disabling trackbacks and pingbacks: they can lead to comment spam and they can be used in a coordinated DDoS and brute force attack. If you do use them, then at least take the time to do what you can to protect your site against trackback spam and brute force attacks. However, most of us are better off just disabling them entirely.