laceous

Just like regular posts and pages, attachments have their own <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments#Inserting_Images" rel="nofollow ugc">pages</a> where guests can leave comments (and can also accept trackbacks/pingbacks). Unlike regular posts and pages, attachment pages don’t offer any UI controls that let you choose (on an individual basis) which attachment pages should allow comments and pings.
This plugin corrects this issue by giving you the ability to turn comments and pings on or off for individual attachment pages within your media library.
The global setting to allow comments or pings by default already applies to attachment pages.

Attachment Page Comment Control

Gives you the ability to turn comments and pings on or off for individual attachment pages within your media library.

ulfben

Pingbacks are automatic notifications added (as a kind of comment) to posts you link to in your articles. Whether a visitor is reading something way back in your archives or your most recent post, the pingbacks makes sure she can easily find any follow ups.
This is great for keeping related articles together, but private blogs are forced to disable Pingbacks to avoid notifying other sites when linking to them!
“Only Self Pings” solves this by only allowing pings to your own site (and whatever URLs you add to the whitelist).
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<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
Copyright (C) 2012 Ulf Benjaminsson (hello at my full name dot com).
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Only Self Pings

Keep your site privacy and automatic pingbacks!

Attachment Page Comment Control vs Only Self Pings