Altering the pingback functionality
Actually, it turned out quite easy, as the post can be retrieved from the slug: // get the url of the reffering post $ping_slug = $comment->comment_author_url; // keep just the slug $ping_slug = trim(parse_url($ping_slug, PHP_URL_PATH), “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); // get the post from the slug $ping_post = get_page_by_path($ping_slug, OBJECT, ‘post’); // find the post author data $ping_author … Read more