How To Stop Trackbacks

I get like 50 trackbacks a day and they slow down my site. I want to turn trackbacks off and automatically delete them. Is there any way to do this?

I unchecked the box "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)", and it didn't help. Can anyone suggest another simple way?

 

Unchecking that box works for future posts only, it won't help with existing posts.
Here is a good article on how to do this for published posts - http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-trackbacks-and-pings-on-existing-wordpress-posts/

BACKUP DATABASE BEFORE TRYING!

 

Thank you, I tried doing what the article suggests. When I run the query I get the following error message:

Error

SQL query:


UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status = 'closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';



MySQL said: Documentation


#1046 - No database selected

I don't see any options to select a database on Hostgator??? Does anyone know what I did wrong?

 

Hi.

Using phpMyAdmin you can select database from the left side column (see attached file)

You can also use this command to select the database

USE database_name;

Code (markup):

before

UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';
UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'page';

Code (markup):

A sure shot way to know what database your site is using is to check the config file.

Hope that helps

 

Thank you. I will try that. If it doesn''t work I will call hostgator and see if they can do it for me, even if I have to pay for it.

 

I use No Self Pings it stops sending trackback from my own site.