Do Not Ping Yourself
Posted by Ken Cheung on Thursday, June 22, 2006 in How-to, WordPress : : one commentWhen I write a post, sometimes I link to another post on my blog. However, I've noticed that when I do, I end up pinging myself. In other words, the link shows up in the linked article as a pingback in the comments area. I think its kinda of weird to ping yourself. So I looked around in the admin area to see if I could turn off internal pinging. The only option I found was to turn off pinging and trackback from other blogs. This wasn't what I wanted. If anything, it will disable external pinging, but may still allow internal pinging. That's my interpretation on the phrase, "other blogs." Otherwise, it would have read, "all blogs."
Next, I looked in the WordPress Codex. If the info was there, someone did a great job of hiding it because I could not find it. Then I searched on the web via Google. I couldn't find it there either. Obviously, if Google can't find it, then it doesn't exist. So, I gave up until a few days ago. That's when I was working on a non-WordPress site — a site that uses relative addressing. That's when it hitted me. I was using absolute addresses when I linked internally on my WordPress blogs. I was using something like, http://izachy.com/link/ instead of /link/.
In my next post, I used a relative address to link to another post. Result? I didn't ping myself. This discovery might be obvious to some people, but if you're a little dense like me, you might appreciate this helpful hint. Remember, don't use the full URL unless you want to ping yourself.
Very good point….I've just been deleting the comments from myself. Feel kinda silly but at least I won't have to do that anymore, thanks!