Should You Prevent Self Pinging in Your WordPress Blog? If Yes, Then How?
Do you use internal linking in your blog extensively? Then you may find self pinging quite annoying. By default, WordPress will send a pingback each time you link to your post. And it can generate tons of self pings if you link to your previous posts every now & then. It looks clumsy . And only a few self pings would really matter to the old post, as they may give an updated info about the old one. But if you are using a related posts plugin, then you don’t need to worry about showing related info. You then just want to stop self ping.
No Self Ping is a tiny WordPress plugin that just does it. You just have to install & activate it. That’s all. No configuration is required. From then, self pinging will be completely stopped in your blog. Don’t worry when you see the plugin is last updated in 2007. I have tested it with the latest WordPress 2.8.1. It works perfect.
I don’t use that much of internal links unless I have to update some news about a service. So I can still use self pings & manually delete them with ease. But it may not be the case with you 
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