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no-self-ping

No Self Ping

Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

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37.2 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Download Momentum

180 days
902 1.1K -16.6% 10.1K

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.9
Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security?

Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security?: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security?
complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.79
Broken

Broken: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Broken Doesn’t work anymore.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Plugin No Longer Working

Plugin No Longer Working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
It’s much the same as this one, for now, although I believe I’ve resolved the issues that some people are experiencing.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Plugin stopped working

Plugin stopped working: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin stopped working Hi there, sadly, this plugin has stopped working on my blog, propably about three days ago.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
magnify/hover not working help please

magnify/hover not working help please: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
magnify/hover not working help please Hello people , I am a newbie and have no or very little coding skills.I have added magnify effect to several pages on my site, and since using optimisation the magnify effect doesn’t work.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Future Support?

Future Support?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Future Support?
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Not working with WP 4.5

Not working with WP 4.5: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Not working with WP 4.5 It seems as if the plugin has finally stopped working.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
The plugin does not work anymore

The plugin does not work anymore: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
The plugin does not work anymore The plugin stopped working a while ago.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.61
Bug Fix: Additional URLs feature broken (inverted logic)

The Additional URLs setting in No Self Ping silently failed because saved URL strings were never parsed into the block list.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
those URLs are never actually blocked
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Works like a charm

Works like a charm: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Works like a charm Manually disabling self-pings via functions.php stopped working for me a few months ago.

Competitor Context

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Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback praise owner · intel 75.0 · weakness 65.5
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating support bugs 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Improved Cron praise owner · intel 56.5 · weakness 40.9
praise owner
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor cron health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
Activate Update Services praise owner · intel 56.2 · weakness 39.9
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, multisite operators, and maintenance teams · Wedge: surface network update risk, network drift, reporting gaps, and client-site exceptions
source 1 source 2
Pingler praise owner · intel 49.7 · weakness 39.8
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Hold Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around ping before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source 1 source 2
PPinger watchlist · intel 41.6 · weakness 39.3
watchlist
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) performance support 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor SEO drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1
Fast Speed Index watchlist · intel 41.4 · weakness 39.9
watchlist
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor index drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1
Eazy XMLRPC Pingback Disable praise owner · intel 41.1 · weakness 34.2
praise owner
stale update history 1 source link Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

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complaint Bug Fix: Additional URLs feature broken (inverted logic) support · 2025-12-09T15:43:01+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

The Additional URLs setting in No Self Ping silently failed because saved URL strings were never parsed into the block list.

Evidence: those URLs are never actually blocked
bugs additional URL blocking trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Does what I need it to (5 stars) review · 2024-04-19T03:45:32+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Does what I need it to: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Does what I need it to Thanks! Thanks!
trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Works like a charm (5 stars) review · 2024-01-09T22:54:57+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Works like a charm: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works like a charm Manually disabling self-pings via functions.php stopped working for me a few months ago.
bugs compatibility easy reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
mixed Plugin stopped working support · 2024-01-09T20:52:39+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Plugin stopped working: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin stopped working Hi there, sadly, this plugin has stopped working on my blog, propably about three days ago.
bugs compatibility missing feature support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
mixed magnify/hover not working help please support · 2021-03-21T13:28:23+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

magnify/hover not working help please: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: magnify/hover not working help please Hello people , I am a newbie and have no or very little coding skills.I have added magnify effect to several pages on my site, and since using optimisation the magnify effect doesn’t work.
bugs performance support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Really like it. (5 stars) review · 2018-12-20T13:22:08+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Really like it.: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: A silent performer, thanks.
form trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Plugin No Longer Working support · 2017-08-05T17:00:35+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Plugin No Longer Working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It’s much the same as this one, for now, although I believe I’ve resolved the issues that some people are experiencing.
bugs missing feature support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint The plugin does not work anymore support · 2017-07-26T06:47:28+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

The plugin does not work anymore: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The plugin does not work anymore The plugin stopped working a while ago.
bugs quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Broken (1 star) review · 2017-06-12T13:26:05+00:00 · high severity · pingback

Broken: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Broken Doesn’t work anymore.
bugs trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Not working with WP 4.5 (2 stars) review · 2016-04-26T17:09:40+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Not working with WP 4.5: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Not working with WP 4.5 It seems as if the plugin has finally stopped working.
bugs trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Works great! (5 stars) review · 2016-04-03T03:45:44+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Works great!: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great!
reliable quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Still necessary (5 stars) review · 2015-12-27T14:12:09+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Still necessary: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Still necessary Amazing that it still works; amazing that we still need it!
reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Does what it says on the cover! (5 stars) review · 2015-11-08T15:43:07+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Does what it says on the cover!: users praise reliable, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Amazing it still works after all this time, but it does exactly what it says it does.
reliable value trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security? support · 2015-01-24T20:28:41+00:00 · high severity · pingback

Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security?: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is this pluging stil safe as matter of security?
security missing feature value trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Works great! (5 stars) review · 2015-01-09T19:25:08+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Works great!: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great!
reliable value quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise It's Old But It Works (5 stars) review · 2014-10-18T03:17:30+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

It's Old But It Works: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: It's Old But It Works Why WordPress pings itself when linking to an internal section of the site is beyond me.
reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Works great! (5 stars) review · 2014-02-09T20:17:50+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Works great!: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great!
reliable quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Does exactly what it says! (5 stars) review · 2013-12-30T03:30:13+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Does exactly what it says!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Does exactly what it says! Couldn’t be happier with the results! Couldn’t be happier with the results!
trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
neutral Self-pings aren't consistent support · 2013-04-25T14:27:54+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Self-pings aren't consistent: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: I always use full URLs and identical formatting – some show up and some don’t.
form trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
complaint Future Support? support · 2013-04-11T12:40:17+00:00 · medium severity · pingback

Future Support?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Future Support?
support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test pingback lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin