Best pingbacks plugins for WordPress
The most popular pingbacks plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of Pingback Killer (100+) and Disable All Comments (80+). All 9 plugins tagged “pingbacks” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 9 pingbacks plugins
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Remove Pingback-Trackback CommentsThe most installed pingbacks plugin, with 100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 2.
Pingback Killer100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 3.
Disable All Comments80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 4.
Moderate Pingbacks50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago.
- 5.
Add Pingbacks10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 8 months ago.
- 6.
Trackbacks Template10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago.
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Only Self Pings10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
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View Pingbacks10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
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Delta Dev Comment LockdownFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 9 plugins tagged “pingbacks”
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
Pingback Killer
Up in the last 7 days:24#15,220by chrisguitarguy15 years ago
Pingback Killer disables all of WordPress' pingback functionality.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable All Comments
Down in the last 7 days:284#17,542by seosbg1 day ago
The complete toolkit to disable, hide or clean up WordPress comments – everywhere with one click, or only where you want.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Moderate Pingbacks
#20,878by Nick Momrik16 years ago
Automatically puts all pingbacks into the comment moderation queue.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Add Pingbacks
Up in the last 7 days:3,363#38,919by simonquasar8 months ago
Manually add pingbacks to any post, page, or custom post type in WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Trackbacks Template
#42,947by dalziel18 years ago
Adds a template tag to allow you to display only the trackbacks for your posts/pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Only Self Pings
Down in the last 7 days:7,483#43,354by ulfben26 days ago
Keep internal pingbacks while restricting outgoing WordPress pingbacks to your own site and explicitly approved URLs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
View Pingbacks
Down in the last 7 days:1,581#48,250by Hudson Atwell14 years ago
This plugin allows us to generate a list of pingbacks in delimited text format so we can use them for miscellaneous purpouses.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Delta Dev Comment Lockdown
Down in the last 7 days:10,504#71,204by Delta Dev2 months ago
Lock down the WordPress comment attack surface with layered protections while preserving existing comment data.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day