It’s very important to have your website connect to other websites and these two bits of help do that.

They are link notifications that enable you to keep track of when other sites link to your content. When these notifications are enabled, they appear in the comments section of your posts.

Although they are very important, they can easily be misused by bots and others malicious actors, therefore, they should remain disabled unless you’re very sure of what you want to achieve.

These are the steps to enable or disable pingbacks and trackbacks:

Log in to WordPress as the administrator.

In the left pane of the dashboard, click Settings, and then click Discussion.

In the Default article settings section:

To enable pingbacks and trackbacks, select the Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) check box.

To disable pingbacks and trackbacks, clear the Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) check box.

Click Save Changes.