What does this code do? – Themeco Community https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/feed/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:16:19 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.14 en-US https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-118827 <![CDATA[What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-118827 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:54:15 +0000 Omid Hello,

In _header.php, line 20 , there is this code:
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>">

What does this code do exactly?

Honestly I had an alert recently from my website server admin. He told me you had CPU overload because of many pingback issues, specially on xmlrpc.php in main root of website.

May X theme cause this problem? What happens if I remove mentioned line?

]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-118871 <![CDATA[Reply To: What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-118871 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:11:56 +0000 Christopher Hi there,

You can find more information about this by checking this link:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_bloginfo

Just search for pingback in the page.

And here is what pingback means:

http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback

Usually it is for SEO purposes and if you think it will do good for yout o remove it, that will not affect your website regarding front end. But it will affect SEO.

Here is more information about SEO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Hope it helps.

]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119130 <![CDATA[Reply To: What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119130 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:18:59 +0000 Omid Hello,

Thanks for these hints 🙂

I think it could be ignored for my weblog!
May I have this omission in child theme to avoid refreshing this file (_header.php) after any update!?

]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119197 <![CDATA[Reply To: What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119197 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:58:50 +0000 Paul R Hi,

Yes, first copy the file x/framework/views/global/_header.php
into x-child-ethos/framework/views/global

Then edit the file x-child-ethos/framework/views/global/_header.php
and remove the line <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo( ‘pingback_url’ ); ?>”>

That should do it.

Best Regards

]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119239 <![CDATA[Reply To: What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119239 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:45:01 +0000 Omid Thank you so much!

]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119248 <![CDATA[Reply To: What does this code do?]]> https://theme.co/archive/forums/topic/what-does-this-code-do/#post-119248 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:53:48 +0000 Rubin You’re welcome!

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