Grade A

No Self Ping

Name: No Self Ping
Rating: 4.3 (14 reviews)
Author: Michael Adams (mdawaffe)

⤓ Download v1.2.1 on WordPress.org ↗

by Michael Adams (mdawaffe)updated 2026-02-08🌟The Rising Star

A tiny tool for a quieter comment section that occasionally breaks.

HealthyGrowing

75/100

This small utility reliably stops internal pings for most users despite occasional reports of it breaking.

Loved22/40

Trustworthy11/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum12/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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add_action( 'pre_ping', function ( &$links ) {
    $home = home_url();
    foreach ( $links as $key => $link ) {
        if ( str_starts_with( $link, $home ) ) {
            unset( $links[ $key ] );
        }
    }
} );

Keep in mind:The plugin also adds a settings field to exclude additional custom domains; the snippet only blocks the current site.

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

→ on track for 20k+in ~6 months

Rating

4.5★

14 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+89%

Growing fast

18 → 34 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +89% in the last year

18/day a year ago→34/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

No Self Ping is generally praised for reliably blocking self-pings without intrusive notices and with responsive support, though some users report it has stopped working for them.

What people like

+Prevents self-pings and trackbacks reliably×2
+Does not display notifications or upsell prompts
+Developer provides quick and friendly support
+Considered useful by users

Common complaints

−Stopped working, self-pings reappear×2

Review trustMostly organic

4.25★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 14 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 16 analyzed

2024-04-19★★★★★Does what I need it to Chris Lovie-Tyler
2024-01-09★★★★★Works like a charm ohrenbaer
2018-12-20★★★★★Really like it.iamsbh
2017-06-12★★★★★Broken Stijn
2016-09-11★★★★★Not working with WP 4.5 mifrie
2016-04-03★★★★★Works great!bryanbatcher
2015-12-27★★★★★Still necessary Ken Gagne
2015-11-08★★★★★Does what it says on the cover!Grant Winney
2015-01-09★★★★★Works great!happyorright
2014-10-18★★★★★It's Old But It Works Jeffro

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-02-08v1.2.1
2025-12-02v1.2
2024-03-20v1.1.5
2018-01-23v1.0
2016-09-11v0.2
2006-10-05v0.1

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

106

Mean release-day peak (30d)

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+18.2%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

50%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.74

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

81%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.25 → 4.25★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered