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How to Remove Pingbacks from the WordPress Recent Comments Widget

December 13, 2010 By Victor M. Font Jr.

There's nothing more annoying than pingbacks displaying in the WordPress Recent Comments Widget. This week I set out on a quest to discover how to remove them from the widget. I'd already discovered how to have them not display on the comments page, but the widget is different altogether and the fix is so simple that I could kick myself. The sourcecode for the recent comments widget can be found in the wp-includes/default-widgets.php file. Search for the line that says:

$comments = get_comments( array( 'number' => $number, 'status' => 'approve' ) );

and change it to

$comments = get_comments( array( 'number' => $number, 'status' => 'approve', 'type' => 'comment' ) );

That's all it takes to filter the pingbacks out. Of course, you really don't want to mess around with the default WordPress widgets. Any WordPress update will overwrite your changes. What I did was copy the default Recent Comments source code and added to the bottom of my theme's functions.php. The new code is below. It has been modified so it does not conflict with the default widget.

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About Victor M. Font Jr.

Victor M. Font Jr. is an award winning author, entrepreneur, and Senior IT Executive. A Founding Board Member of the North Carolina Executive Roundtable, he has served on the Board of Advisors, of the North Carolina Technology Association, the International Institute of Business Analysis, Association of Information Technology Professionals, Toastmasters International, and the North Carolina Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services. He is author of several books including The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC and Winning With WordPress Basics, and Cybersecurity.

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