No Self Ping

79 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

With 10,000 active installs it is a niche utility plugin, not a mainstream install, which keeps its popularity score moderate despite solving a genuinely common frustration.

Update Freshness

25/25

Last updated February 2026 and tested against WordPress 6.9.4, the maintenance signals are excellent and suggest the developer remains attentive to core compatibility.

User Rating

14/15

A 90 out of 100 rating from 14 reviewers is strong, though the small sample size means this is an early indicator rather than a deeply validated score.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads is technically a perfect record on one hand, but it also indicates the developer has not needed to address user issues, which makes it hard to judge responsiveness.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requiring only PHP 7.4 and WordPress 4.6, with current testing against 6.9.4, gives this plugin very broad compatibility across virtually all modern hosting environments.

Scores higher than 71% of indexed plugins

About

Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

Active Installs 10k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2026-08-20 7:42am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.6+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

No Self Ping prevents WordPress from sending trackbacks or pingbacks to your own posts when you link to them internally. This stops the clutter of self-referential pings appearing in your own comment moderation queue, which is a common annoyance on blogs with frequent internal linking.

Who It's For

This plugin is best suited for bloggers, publishers, and content-heavy sites that regularly link to their own older articles and want a cleaner comment queue. It is also useful for multisite networks and high-traffic publishing operations where internal cross-linking is part of the content strategy.

Who Should Skip It

If you rarely link to your own posts, run a small personal blog, or already manage internal links through editorial discipline, you likely do not need this plugin installed. Sites that have disabled pingbacks entirely at the server or theme level will gain nothing from adding it.

The Bottom Line

No Self Ping is a focused, lightweight plugin that does exactly one job and does it well, earning an overall quality score of 78.91 out of 100. It is worth installing if internal self-pings are a recurring annoyance on your site, but the job is small enough that some users will be just as well served by a manual theme function. There is little risk in trying it given the broad compatibility and recent maintenance activity.

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