Disable pingbacks and trackbacks in blog posts

The thing is, the default post has both comments and pingbacks/trackbacks enabled by default. And post or page level settings override the site-wide settings. So, for ONLY the “Hello world!” post (if you are not deleting it), you’ll have to specifically uncheck Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page. option which is available when you … Read more

Source of Pingbacks

Not long ago I did a talk on v3.5 and posted a link to my blogpost on the company site, resulting in a pingback/trackback. Going to the comments page I can see this: As you can see, the title of the referring page and the link to it ( the source ) are in the … Read more

Get Posts Link With Each Other

Built into WordPress are categories, tags, and trackbacks/pingbacks that can serve as crosslinking. Your theme has to display the category an tag listings, which most seem to do. Trackbacks/pingbacks are displayed as part of the comment thread. Anything else, or anything more complicated, you will have to do yourself. Based on your question, I am … Read more

Why does WordPress cap the number of pingbacks it attempts per post?

The situation for WordPress 5.1: After publishing a post, wp-includes/post.php‘s _publish_post_hook() schedules the do_pings action for immediate execution. This is put into the “cron” option in database. Whenever the cron job runs, do_all_pings() is executed, which sends pingbacks for all outstanding posts. pingback() extracts all links from the post text and sends a pingback to … Read more

XMLRPC pingback.extensions.getPingbacks not work with parameters

Note that WordPress ships with WP_HTTP_IXR_CLIENT that extends the IXR_Client. So replace require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-IXR.php’; $rpc = new IXR_Client( ‘http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/xmlrpc.php’ ); with: require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-IXR.php’; require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-wp-http-ixr-client.php’; $rpc = new WP_HTTP_IXR_CLIENT( ‘http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/xmlrpc.php’ ); Then try replacing: $result = $rpc->query( ‘pingback.extensions.getPingbacks’, ‘http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/2018/01/17/hallo-welt/&post_type=something’ ); with $result = … Read more

pingbacks testing

Q: Are pingbacks sent immediately when a post is published, or are they scheduled as a cron job? If the later is correct, how often does the job run and can I trigger it manually? A: You can install core control (wordpress plugin) to find out more. Q: Are there any other terms for PBs … Read more

Comments and pingbacks issues

Actually, after trying a lot more I figured out that it was actually something quite simple I just forgot. Apart from the code in the comment.php, you also have to change this in your single.php: <?php comments_template(); ?> to <?php comments_template(”, true); ?> And that did the trick! I leave this here for future reference … Read more