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When a post is published or updated, Internal Pingback Comments scans its content, finds all internal links, and creates a pingback-style comment on each linked post. It mimics native WordPress pingback behavior but eliminates the need for XML-RPC or outbound network requests.
Works with posts only. No settings page, no configuration.
How it works
The plugin parses post content with DOMDocument — not regex — so it handles real-world HTML correctly: nested tags, encoded entities, relative and protocol-relative URLs. For each internal link found, it inserts a pingback comment on the target post. The comment includes a short excerpt from the source post, with image captions (figcaption) stripped so they do not bleed into the pingback text.
Duplicate detection is precise: the source permalink is stored as private comment meta, and the plugin queries that meta before every insert. Republishing or updating a post never creates duplicate comments. New links added to an existing post will generate their own pingbacks on the next save.
What the pingback looks like to your theme
The comment is stored with <code>comment_type = 'pingback'</code> and auto-approved. Your theme renders it exactly as it would render a native pingback. If your theme does not display pingbacks, the comment will be stored in the database but remain hidden on the front end.
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
This plugin is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. While best efforts have been made to ensure reliability and security, the author is not liable for any damages or losses resulting from its use.

Internal Pingback Comments

Detects internal links in posts and automatically inserts a pingback-style comment on each linked post. No XML-RPC required.

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Pau Iglesias

When your blog posts receive pingbacks and trackbacks usually they are displayed together with user opinions.
But if you don’t like to see this additional data, or you think pingbacks and trackbacks are not valuable for your blog, here is a tool to remove them.
This plugin allows you to delete all pingbacks and trackbacks comments from your blog, leaving only user comments.
Furthermore turns to closed the ping status of existing posts still allowing new notifications, avoiding them future pingbacks or trackbacks.
And for new posts, to avoid more notifications, updates the default post ping status value to closed (this option is available in Discussion Settings section).
Full support for any kind of custom post types. There is a filter for developers if you want to exclude a particular post type.
This plugin provides a single one step form to do these changes, but previously it’s strongelly recommended you perform a database backup.
Once completed this process, you will not receive more pingbacks or trackbacks unless you do not change posts or blog notifications configuration.

Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments

One step process to remove pingbacks and trackbacks and leave only real user opinions in your posts comments.

Internal Pingback Comments vs Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments