[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3205: WordPress tries to pingback itself when editing article linking to other on same site

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#3205: WordPress tries to pingback itself when editing article linking to other on
same site
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 Reporter:  david72  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:           
Component:  General  |     Version:  2.0.4    
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:  pingback 
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 Spurious comments are appearing for moderation in my WordPress
 installation.

 I'm not certain that this is the cause, but I suspect that WordPress is
 trying to send pingbacks to 'itself' when a user edits an article on my
 WordPress system which includes a link to another article which is also a
 part of the same WordPress installation.

 Presumably WordPress looks for links in the article to send pingbacks to,
 but appears unable to recognise when it is pingingback itself, rather than
 another site. This is presumably not desirable behaviour(!).

 These presumed pingbacks appear as comments requiring moderation (if
 comment moderation is on), which is confusing to novice users (such as
 myself!). It is not immediately clear from the comment as displayed for
 moderation that it *is* a pingback, which led me to worry that either I
 was being cracked or that I had unleashed some major bug(!), before
 realising what was actually happening.

 As a hopeful workaround, I have disabled trackbacks/pingbacks for now,
 which I hope will avoid this problem. However, this means that I can't
 trackback/pingback other sites (although this isn't a major concern for
 me).

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