what is a wordpress pingback? [+ how to disable them]

In way, you can think of pingbacks like @ mentions or tags on media — they let WordPress blog know that you mentioned them in your own blog post ..   The exact design of the pingback will depend on WordPress theme you're using.   Some themes display URL of the post, short excerpt of the portion of the text that includes the link to your post..   For example, WordPress will send pingback to that other post by default ..   You will experience pingbacks in two different ways, depending on if someone else linked to your WordPress site or you linked to someone WordPress site ..   The pingback will show up in the comments section of the blog post that the other site linked to.   your WordPress site will send pingback to the blog post that you linked to..   it will show up in the comments section of the post that you linked to...   you can also uncheck the box for Attempt to notify any blogs linked from the article...   Alternatively, you can add the following code snippet to the functions php file of your WordPress child theme or via plugin like Code Snippets..   Read more