Pingback Killer Plugin

Hate Pingbacks and Trackbacks? Me too. Pingback Killer disables of of WordPress’ built in pingback functionality.

This is a very simple plugin that…
1. Removes the X-Pingback header WordPress sends
2. Causes any bloginfo('ping_backurl') call to return an empty string
3. Hijacks the two options relating to pingbacks
4. Removes the /trackback/ rewrite rules

There are no options pages, it just works.

Bugs? Problems? Get in touch.

1. Download the pingback-killer.zip file and unzip it
2. Upload the pingback-killer folder to your wp-content/plugins directory
3. In the WordPress admin area, click “Plugins” and activate Pingback Killer

A Note about Deactivation

After deactivating this plugin, you may have to visit the permalinks settings page and hit “save” to get the trackback rewrite rules back.

None so far.

1.0

The first (and probalby only?) version