Best trackback plugins for WordPress
The most popular trackback plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. No Self Ping leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Webmention (900+) and Hide Trackbacks (300+). All 23 plugins tagged “trackback” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 trackback plugins
- 1.
No Self PingThe most installed trackback plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 14 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Webmention900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Hide Trackbacks300+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Disable Trackbacks200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 18 years ago.
- 5.
Remove Pingback-Trackback Comments100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 6.
SMu Manual DoFollow100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 7.
Silent Publish60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 8.
Force Ping Display with Disqus10+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 9.
Default Trackbacks10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
- 10.
Pingchecker10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
All 23 plugins tagged “trackback”
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
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
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
Disable Trackbacks
Down in the last 7 days:69#11,847by Automattic18 years ago
Globally disables trackbacks to cut down on spam. Very, very few people legitimately use trackbacks and spammers love them, so it's worthy tradeo …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/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
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
Silent Publish
Down in the last 7 days:76#20,026by Scott Reilly6 years ago
Adds the ability to publish a post without triggering pingbacks, trackbacks, or notifying update services.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- 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
Default Trackbacks
#33,829by szehau17 years ago
This plugin will send trackbacks to URLs in the list ONLY when user publish a post or change the post status to publish.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
Blogtal Trackback
Up in the last 7 days:12,719#35,369by szehau17 years ago
This plugin will send trackback to Blog Portal or Blogtal (www.blogtal.com) ONLY when user publish a post or change the post status to publish.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP_PingPreserver
Up in the last 7 days:2,701#36,155by scottsm19 years ago
Prevents WordPress from eating pings that come too quickly in succession (i.e. a single post linking to more than one of your pages).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comment URL Control
Up in the last 7 days:5,558#41,114by Erunafailaro19 years ago
This plugin will allow you to remove an unwanted author-URI entered by a commenter with one single click of your mouse.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Trackback and Pingback Widget
Up in the last 7 days:5,207#41,471by miunosoft13 years ago
Displays trackbacks and pingbacks which belong to the currently displayed page in a widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- 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
PRyC WP
Down in the last 7 days:3,471#42,163by Patryk5 months ago
Plugin disable self trackback (comments)
- 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
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
Alex King's Popularity Contest (AKPC) Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4,441#47,552by Debashish17 years ago
Sidebar widget version of Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King. Please install and activate the plugin before using this widget.
- 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
wp-TrackbackPopup
#48,185by kingjeffrey17 years ago
The standard WordPress trackback link behavior does not provide users their expected result. wp-TrackbackPopup resolves this issue.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day