Ever accidentally publicize a post that you didn’t mean to?

Updated on August 29, 2022 - Jeremy Herve

Note: Publicize is now auto-share and is part of Jetpack Social.

Ever accidentally publicize a post that you didn’t mean to? This snippet will prevent the connections from being auto-selected, so you need to manually select them if you’d like to publicize something.

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add_filter( 'publicize_checkbox_default', '__return_false' );<br>

You can place this code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file, or in a functionality plugin.

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Jeremy Alzona says:

October 16, 2013 at 11:36 am

Will this feature ever come to WordPress.com?

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- Jeremy says:
  
  October 16, 2013 at 11:43 am
  
  You currently cannot add any custom PHP code or plugin to a WordPress.com blog, so I’m afraid you won’t be able to add this option to your WordPress.com site.
  
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  - Jeremy Alzona says:
    
    October 18, 2013 at 10:15 am
    
    Yes, but will we soon be able to have the same function on WordPress.com in the future? 🙂
    
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  - Jeremy says:
    
    October 18, 2013 at 10:49 am
    
    No, I’m afraid that’s not in our plans.
    
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Juan Monroy says:

October 16, 2013 at 7:24 pm

Added it to my functions.php file, and the checkbox is off. Thanks!

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