[wp-testers] Pingback behavior

Robert Gormley robert at pennyonthesidewalk.com
Sun Apr 17 09:27:57 GMT 2005


Michael D Adams wrote:

> Whenever I edit a post, it resends pingbacks.  More specifically, I'm
> running revision 2535 and am pingbacking a post on a friend's
> WordPress 1.5.0 blog.  He got one pingback when I first published the
> post and another when I edited some typos.
>
> Is this the intended behavior?  If not, is this my WordPress' problem
> (I shouldn't be sending new pingbacks on edit), or his (he should not
> accept multiple pingbacks from the same source)?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. To let people know that an entry they
have already been notified of has been altered - perhaps substantially.



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