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OT – WordPress self pinging itself every minute.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
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Member since Mar 2012
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Jun 9, 2012 · 4:12 pm · Edited

Hey Guys..

Got a quick off topic question here.

I’m getting a slew of hits from my web hosts server literally every minute. This is showing up in my stats and logs “/?attest=true”. The web host said it’s WordPress pinging itself. I disabled trackbacks in WP discussion config, and disabled allow pings in my posts. But WP appears to be still pinging itself.

Any suggestions?

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Member since Dec 2006
19,448 posts
Jun 9, 2012 · 4:51 pm

I would check your other plugins or wp theme… I am not aware of standard, stock wp having a query arg of ?attest…  a quick check of the wp core and I dont see any processing of such a query arg…

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
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Member since Mar 2012
577 posts
Jun 11, 2012 · 6:42 am

G’mornin..

It was a plugin. Add This V2.4.0 causing it. rolleys