Silent Publish
by Scott Reilly 4 (1 reviews)

Silent Publish

Adds the ability to publish a post without triggering pingbacks, trackbacks, or notifying update services.

Silent Publish ranks #19,534 among WordPress.org plugins with 60+ active installations, is #749 of 2,893 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Feb 14, 2020. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 5.3 (Current: 7.1.2)
v2.8 Current Version v2.8
Updated 6 years ago Last Update on 14 Feb, 2020
Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#749 of 2,893 in Discussion & Community Top 50% by installs No update in over a year
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#19,534
+70 this week
Active Installs
60+
-7.7%
KW Avg Position
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1 worse
Downloads
6.5K
+2 today
Support Resolved
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Rating
80%
Review 4 out of 5
4 (1 reviews)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Silent Publish

Perhaps for a particular post you don't want any external notifications sent out. If checked when the post is published, that post will not trigger the pingbacks, trackbacks, and update service notifications that might typically occur.
Yes. See the Filters section (under Other Notes) and look for the example using the 'c2c_silent_publish_default' filter. You'll have to put that code into your active theme's functions.php file or a mu-plugin file.
If the "Silent publish?" checkbox had been checked at the time a post is published, the field will be shown but will disabled for that published post. Once a post is published, changing the value of the checkbox has no meaning, so there is no need to make it checkable. If you unpublish the post, the checkbox will again be clickable.
If the "Silent publish?" checkbox had not been checked at the time a post is published, the field will no longer be shown for that published post. Once a post is published, changing the value of the checkbox has no meaning, so there is no need to show it. If you unpublish the post, the checkbox will reappear.
Yes. You must first unpublish the post (by making it a draft or pending). Then uncheck the "Publish silently?" checkbox and republish the post. However, it's a bit moot at that point; once a post has been published without having silent publish enabled for it then pingbacks, trackbacks, and other notifications about the post being published have already been sent.
No.
No. your posts will continue to be shared to social media sites upon publication (assuming it is configured to do so by whatever plugins you have in place to share your posts).
Yes.

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