I love WordPress plugins. I’m a tech geek, so finding a new plugin that makes my life easier makes me happy. Seriously, I think they are little bits of heaven (is that sad?). I love them so much that I’m going to regularly feature cool WordPress plugins here on Edit and Post.
For those of you who are just getting to know WordPress, a plugin is a piece of code that you install and activate. Plugins can be complex or simple, and they either add functionality to WordPress or change existing WordPress behavior. We’ll cover the process of installing and activating plugins in the Building Your WordPress Blog series.
Some plugins have settings that you change based upon how you want them to perform. Some have CSS files (remember CSS?) that style their results. Others require you to edit something in your theme.
Today’s plugin is easy, all you have to do is install and activate, and it works its magic.
Each time you update content on your site, you are creating a ping. A ping tells the whole web world that there is a new post in the blogosphere. If your blog post links to another blog post, you send a pingback to the blog you linked to (make sense?).
If someone sends you a pingback and you have enabled link notifications from other blogs in your WordPress discussion settings, a pingback will then appear as a comment on the post they linked to.
This is all well and good, until you link to you. It looks kind of silly for your own blog to comment on your own blog, now doesn’t it?
No Self Pings fixes all of that, by stopping yourself from pinging yourself.
Do you have a simple but great WordPress plugin that we should all know about?
Thank you for sharing Ami! I"m learning a lot already. RT @amiatEAD On Edit and Post: WordPress Plugins: No Self Pings http://bit.ly/cw3Cu5
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hm.. I don’t have a plugin that seems at all interesting installed…
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Necessities, but… boring!
I will check back here later and see what others may share.
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Great plug-in! I love WP plug-ins – they so definitely make life easier!
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I’m just discovering WP Plug-ins. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to try installing the self-ping one.
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I really, really needed this. Those pingback email notifications I get are so annoying! In part because I get excited thinking that someone commented on my blog and then I realize that it was just me again. :)
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I like to have self pings. If i link to an article the informations in those 2 articles are complementary and if they don’t understand something they have to click on link to learn more. It will be sent to an article explaining something, for example a plugin, what is a plugin. I linked to that page from another page where i talk about a plugin and if someone don’t know what is a plugin he go to “what is a plugin” page and read.
Backwards, if a reader lands on “what is a plugin page” at the end of the article he will see what articles pointed to this. On those articles i write about a specific plugins, or something related to plugins. After he learned what is a plugin he may want to read some examples articles about plugins.
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Lucian, that’s an excellent point and a good strategy that I don’t implement, but perhaps I should! It would be very effective if you’ve designed your theme to split trackbacks/pingbacks from comments and do a “links to this article” section before comments.
Definitely something to think about, thanks!
Thanks!
I was wondering how to get rid of those annoying pingbacks.
I placed inter-post links in my blogs with optimized anchor text.
Every day I’ve been deleting pingbacks.
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