Best pingback plugins for WordPress
The most popular pingback plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SiteGuard WP Plugin leads with 600K+ active installs, ahead of Disable XML-RPC-API (100K+) and Disable XML-RPC Pingback (60K+). All 26 plugins tagged “pingback” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 pingback plugins
- 1.
SiteGuard WP PluginThe most installed pingback plugin, with 600K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 15 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Disable XML-RPC-API100K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 43 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Disable XML-RPC Pingback60K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 14 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
No Self Ping10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 14 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback7K+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 6.
Webmention900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 7.
Eazy XMLRPC Pingback Disable700+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 8.
Stop Pinging Yourself600+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 9.
Hide Trackbacks300+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 days ago.
All 26 plugins tagged “pingback”
SiteGuard WP Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:1#108by jp-secure12 days ago
Adds WordPress login and admin protections, including CAPTCHA, login lock, login alerts, renamed login URLs, and SiteGuard WAF tuning support.
- Installs
- 600K+
- Rating
- 4.3(15)
- Downloads
- 5.9K/day
Disable XML-RPC-API
#388by Amin Nazemi9 months ago
A simple and lightweight plugin to disable XML-RPC API, X-Pingback and pingback-ping in WordPress 3.5+ for a faster and more secure website
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.2(43)
- Downloads
- 269/day
Disable XML-RPC Pingback
Up in the last 7 days:1#666by Samuel Aguilera11 months ago
Stops abuse of your site's XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 3.9(14)
- Downloads
- 82/day
No Self Ping
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,615by Michael Adams (mdawaffe)2 months ago
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(14)
- Downloads
- 55/day
Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,541by cleverplugins3 years ago
Prevent pingback, XML-RPC and denial of service DDOS attacks by disabling the XML-RPC pingback functionality.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.0(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Webmention
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,998by Matthias Pfefferle18 days ago
Send and receive Webmentions in WordPress.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 46/day
Eazy XMLRPC Pingback Disable
Down in the last 7 days:3#7,819by Rob Scott8 years ago
This plugin disables the WordPress XMLRPC pingback ping.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Stop Pinging Yourself
Down in the last 7 days:11#8,235by PadLabs10 years ago
Stops a WordPress blog from pinging itself with pingbacks
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Hide Trackbacks
Up in the last 7 days:2#10,209by Sander van Dragt2 months ago
Prevents trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up as comments on posts.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks
Up in the last 7 days:27#11,505by Ajay5 days ago
Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments
Down in the last 7 days:75#14,945by Pau Iglesias11 years ago
One step process to remove pingbacks and trackbacks and leave only real user opinions in your posts comments.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 4/day
WP Custom Emails
Down in the last 7 days:91#15,932by Damian Góra10 years ago
Easily customize WordPress notification emails.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
SMu Manual DoFollow
Down in the last 7 days:38#16,239by Stefan M.11 years ago
SMu DoFollow has many DoFollow Options (Manual or Automatism) and included URL Validator (Manual, WP-Cron or Cronjob).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Force Ping Display with Disqus
#32,224by Speeddymon10 years ago
Shows Pingbacks and Trackbacks above Disqus comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pingchecker
#34,630by Tony Hayes15 years ago
Scans post for links, checks if they are pingeable and sends pingbacks with results returned, improves chances of successful pings!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
External Related Posts
#41,798by Gabriel Koen14 years ago
Grabs related links from Google Blog Search, inserts a link to them into your post and gives them a pingback.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pingcrawl
Up in the last 7 days:2,372#43,094by mikegogulski17 years ago
Pingcrawl adds a "Possibly related posts" capability by querying Google Blog Search for post tags and pinging the results.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kramer
Down in the last 7 days:1,135#44,415by nik19 years ago
Kramer will add inbound links to a post on your weblog as pingbacks by checking Technorati and by monitoring incoming referrers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Pingback Email
Down in the last 7 days:304#45,363by Tanner Moushey13 years ago
Add the option for a pingback notification to go to an email other than the site admin email.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Follow Self Pings
Down in the last 7 days:7,773#48,177by mihai17 years ago
Follow Self Pings
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fixora Disable XML-RPC
Down in the last 7 days:370#54,294by Fixora Labs1 month ago
Fixora disable xml-rpc and xmlrpc pingback with a blocked-attempt log—see recent blocks in Settings.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove XML-RPC Pingback
Up in the last 7 days:3,045#55,619by Hybrid Webs6 years ago
Disable Pingback method from XML-RPC by simply removing it. This plugin is working with WordPress 4.4
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
w3v-xml-rpc-security
Up in the last 7 days:9,765#59,952by W3villa Technologies Pvt Ltd3 years ago
Securing site by disable XML-RPC by removing some methods.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Internal Pingback Comments
Up in the last 7 days:8,671#62,780by pontocinza6 months ago
Detects internal links in posts and automatically inserts a pingback-style comment on each linked post. No XML-RPC required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day