[wp-hackers] Quest for Self Pingbacks

Sun Aug 30 13:31:15 UTC 2009

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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