{"id":1328,"date":"2009-09-15T22:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2009-09-15T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:13:31","slug":"bye-bye-trackbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/bye-bye-trackbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Trackbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I realized that I absolutely don&#39;t care any longer about trackbacks. At the beginning, it was fun to get a notice every time someone would link to my blog, and I would religiously check their site and probably discovered cool blogs this way. But now? While I value comments, I just don&#39;t see the point of trackbacks any more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get too much of them to have the time to check them all<\/li>\n<li>They make ugly [&#8230;]anchor links[&#8230;] in my comment moderation queue<\/li>\n<li>A third (on my blog at least) are spam (mostly caught by Akismet hopefully)<\/li>\n<li>And when they&#39;re not spam, 95% of the time they come from a website I can&#39;t understand because I don&#39;t speak that language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, after several minutes of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ozh\/status\/4010676497\">loud pondering<\/a>, I&#39;ve decided to simply turn them off on the whole site. For the record and if someone is wondering, besides turning the option off in Settings \/ Discussion, you need to send the following to MySQL:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-1\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"code\">\n\t\t<ol class=\"code\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\">UPDATE `wp_posts` SET ping_status=&quot;closed&quot;;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Bye bye ping\/track\/whatever-backs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I realized that I absolutely don&#39;t care any longer about trackbacks. At the beginning, it was fun to get a notice every time someone would link to my blog, and I would religiously check their site and probably discovered cool blogs this way. But now? While I value comments, I just don&#39;t see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[324,1,12,364,245],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-comments","tag-my-life","tag-planetozh","tag-trackbacks","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}