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
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
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
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
Disable pingbacks/trackbacks on WordPress Pages
The pingback functions run via the hoook do_pings. The core use the follow default: add_action( ‘do_pings’, ‘do_all_pings’, 10, 1 ); This hook is on default a cron job, running in the scheduling as single event of the core. I think you should remove this hook via remove_action and add a custom logic to fire this … Read more
It depends how you link the sites. WordPress is very particular. If you link it with http://… at the beginning, then WordPress will generate a pingback. If you do a relative link, then WordPress will nto generate a pingback. Whether this applies to subdomains as much as to cross-domains, I can’t say. But, try linking … Read more
For some reason, the default filter attached to pingback errors, will not send an error message unless the error code is 48. From wp-includes/commment.php: function xmlrpc_pingback_error( $ixr_error ) { if ( $ixr_error->code === 48 ) return $ixr_error; return new IXR_Error( 0, ” ); }
Add topsy.com/trackback (or whatever they are using for those links now) to Settings > Discussion > Comment Blacklist.
For pingbacks, it seems only the linked page/post and the page/post it linked from are sent. Check out the pingback() function, specifically this line: $client->query( ‘pingback.ping’, $pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto ); … where $client is an instance of WP_HTTP_IXR_Client. The query method uses IXR_Request to package up a simple XML document: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <methodCall> <methodName>pingback.ping</methodName> <params> <param> … Read more