[wp-hackers] Quest for Self Pingbacks

[Chris Kasten]

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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