[wp-hackers] Quest for Self Pingbacks

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Mon Aug 31 20:44:24 UTC 2009 

In your theme, is this line in the header?

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

Pingbacks need that to work.

-Otto



On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Chris Kasten<handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
> The patch made no changes in my lack of ability to self-ping.
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll give it a shot and report back.
>> Meanwhile... It alarms me that my self links never get collected and added
>> to the to_ping / pinged columns in the Posts table. Or are they briefly
>> there and removed when the pingback fails?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Peter Westwood <
>> peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Could you try on your test blog with the patch on this ticket applied.
>>>
>>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10588
>>>
>>> This switches the IXR class over to use the WordPress HTTP api instead of
>>> fsockopen for connections it should be more reliable.
>>>
>>> Please leave feedback on your sucess/lack there of on the ticket.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Westwood
>>> http://peter.westwood.name
>>>
>>> On 30 Aug 2009, at 03:17, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Future posts do indeed work (mentioned a couple stanzas below your reply
>>>> ;-)
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au
>>>> >wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Is the cron system working?
>>>>>
>>>>> Try a future-publish post, See if that gets published (Thats based on
>>>>> the
>>>>> Cron system).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:11:44 +1000, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On a fresh locally install blog self pingbacks work just fine. I guess
>>>>>
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> may be a Dreamhost related issue?What a bummer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I poked around through the access and error logs but didn't see any
>>>>>> obvious
>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm hosted on Dreamhost. As mentioned earlier, self pings were good
>>>>>> until
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the beginning of this year (which may coincide with a WP release? I
>>>>>>> can't
>>>>>>> recall now).
>>>>>>> I also tried a pingback from one of my blogs to the other (but both on
>>>>>>> Dreamhost and both in same domain). Same deal, no pingback and nothing
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> the ping fields in the Posts table.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just tested a future post and it worked. What else would you like me
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> try? I get the same results with my blog as I do with a test blog (no
>>>>>>> plugins / default theme).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess one next step would be to get one going locally (as in not on
>>>>>>> Dreamhost) and see how self pings go there. Anything else I should
>>>>>>> look
>>>>>>> at?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From your note, it sounds like I can assume that self pings _should_
>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>> work?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Peter Westwood <
>>>>>>> peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It sounds like you are suffering from oases which prevent the self
>>>>>>> pings
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> from working.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is normally due to hosting confug in relation to connections
>>>>>>>> back
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> your server from your server.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does the built in cron system work for you? For example does future
>>>>>>>> publishing posts work?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Peter Westwood
>>>>>>>> http://peter.westwood.name
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:47, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes thanks. I realize a lot of people don't like them.  That's why
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  No
>>>>>>>>> Pings plugin was invented! But I do like 'em and WP used to generate
>>>>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>>>> Like or dislike, I just wish to confirm that they (self pings) are
>>>>>>>>> indeed
>>>>>>>>> dropped by WP now. If so, A nudge on how to re-enable them with a
>>>>>>>>> plugin
>>>>>>>>> would be really groovy.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Chris Kasten
>>>>>>>>> Solo Technology
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Rics <ricardo.cezar at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Personally, I don't like self trackbacks... it's anoying.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  I prefer to have related posts and use trackback only from other
>>>>>>>>>> websites.
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>> Rics
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.pensarics.com
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.meadiciona.com/rics
>>>>>>>>>> Maringá, PR - Brasil
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2009/8/29 scribu <scribu at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That's ironic, since there's a plugin that does the opposite. It's
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  called
>>>>>>>>>>> No
>>>>>>>>>>> Self Pings.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> http://scribu.net
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