[wp-hackers] Quest for Self Pingbacks

Sun Aug 30 14:13:32 UTC 2009

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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