When I write a post, sometimes I link to another post on my blog. However, I've noticed that when I do, I end up pinging myself. In other words, the link shows up in the linked article as a pingback in the comments area. I think its kinda of weird to ping yourself. So I looked around in the admin area to see if I could turn off internal pinging. The only option I found was to turn off pinging and trackback from other blogs. This wasn't what I wanted. If anything, it will disable external pinging, but may still allow internal pinging. That's my interpretation on the phrase, "other blogs." Otherwise, it would have read, "all blogs."
Next, I looked in the WordPress Codex. If the info was there, someone did a great job of hiding it because I could not find it. Then I searched on the web via Google. I couldn't find it there either. Obviously, if Google can't find it, then it doesn't exist. So, I gave up until a few days ago. That's when I was working on a non-WordPress site — a site that uses relative addressing. That's when it hitted me. I was using absolute addresses when I linked internally on my WordPress blogs. I was using something like, http://izachy.com/link/ instead of /link/.
In my next post, I used a relative address to link to another post. Result? I didn't ping myself. This discovery might be obvious to some people, but if you're a little dense like me, you might appreciate this helpful hint. Remember, don't use the full URL unless you want to ping yourself.
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