I noticed a phenomenon on this blog pretty early on where any references one post would make to another would cause a comment to be created on the referenced post from the referring post.  I didn’t know it at the time, but this is called a ping.  I suspect the immediate source of the term is from the networking command line utility allowing the user to see if a server is alive.  The original source of the term is from the navy (or some water-borne military organization) using SONAR where a sound would be made and a measurement would be taken to determine how long it would take for the sound to echo back.  The sound that was made sounds like tapping a glass, thus the term ping.

To the WordPress world, I’m sure this is all common knowledge.  In any case, I didn’t like seeing this kind of thing.  I like seeing pings from other sites, but not from my own site.  The No Self Pings plugin solves this problem.

Overall Grade: A
Plugin Name: No Self Pings
Version: 0.2
Plugin URI: http://blogwaffe.com/2006/10/04/421/
Description: Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Author: Michael D. Adams
Author URI: http://blogwaffe.com/
Installation

Installation couldn’t be simpler.  Just put it in your WordPress plugins directory and activate it.

Usage

There really isn’t anything to do to use this plugin.  It just simply works.

Conclusion

I use this plugin because I really only want to see what others think about my posts, not what I think.  If you’re like me, download this plugin and install it and you’ll be happy with the result.

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