How to turn off PingBacks in 1.5

  • Hi,
    I am using WordPress 1.5 – I am new with WP and blogs in general – and I recently posted a text with some links in it and it took a very long time until the browser ended with an empty new form. Then I tested and wrote an article with 1 link to an amazon page and it took 3 minutes until the browser finished whatever it was doing.
    The saving process itself is quickly done (I can see changes immediately after hitting the save button on my weblog – in another browser tab), but the “write post” page in the admin interface isn’t refreshing (displaying an empty form) and the browser indicates that it’s still doing something, if that post contained one or more links.
    What exactly is WordPress doing? Is that ‘pinging back’? In another post I found this screenshot (https://www.ads-software.com/about/shots/1.2/advanced-post.png) from a WP 1.2 installation, and below the textarea is a checkbox “PingBack the URIs in this post” – I cannot find anything like this in my WP 1.5 installation.
    I can see an “Allow Pings” checkbox but I believe this is just for receiving pings for the new article.
    Can anybody help me with that, because I don’t really need this pingback feature. Is there a way to turn it off sitewide.
    Thank you in advance.

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  • Look under Options > Discussions.

    Kaf – wouldn’t that be Options > Writing?

    Thread Starter jabl

    (@jabl)

    Thanks for your reply!
    I unchecked “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)” – but no change. I try to post a link to amazon and it takes as long as before.
    And another thing: this section in the Options > Discussion settings tells me “These settings may be overridden for individual articles”, but I cannot find any checkbox or button in the article form. (I did not change any pages in the wp-admin directory, just my theme)

    Can you tell me what WP is doing exactly? Amazon pages are usually big and contain lots of links, is it that? Could it be a problem with my web hoster? (But I used Serendipity for testing on the same server and posting wasn’t that slow.)

    davincim, Only for update services. Pings to links in individual posts are affected by what’s under Discussions.

    jabl, You could follow davincim’s pointer and try removing the update url(s) under Writing Options. As for the “These settings…” line, I think the devs missed an edit on the upgrade.

    Thread Starter jabl

    (@jabl)

    Ok, it is working now. Thank you both!

    Ahh, thanks for clarifying, Kaf. I was thinking about the update services thing. ??

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