I’m having a heck of a time having trackbacks being disabled period on my self-hosted blog. I’ve disabled the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” option, and have all comments going through disqus, yet for some reason I’m getting 20-50 trackbacks a day to the blog directly (not through disqus). Is there something obvious that I’m missing?
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If you are using a twentyten/eleven theme, they hardcode the pingback meta tag into the
head.php
file. Remove that line or use your own theme. Also, and maybe it’s only in multisite, but the X-Pingback header is sent along with the xmlrpc endpoint url as well. Removed with the following: