new hooks for pingback, trackback?

[monkinetic]

I'd like to propose two more hooks for Wordpress, one in pingback_ping()
and the other in wp-trackback.php.

background: ​http://redmonk.net/archives/2006/12/21/voteback/

The first hook would allow plugins to have access to the full text of a
hyperlink on a site that is pinging this site, before the comment is
built for a ping.

The second would allow plugins to have access to the full post data for
a trackback before the comment is built.

This patch adds a call to a new hook before a trackback is saved

This patch adds a new hook before a pingback is saved

Looks good. Can we fit this into 2.0.6 or is that feature frozen?

The trackback_extend_comment.patch isn't needed... you can access the same data in the preprocess_comment hook. The filter is run on the first line of wp_new_comment() and $_POST is a superglobal, so you always have access to it.

The pingback excerpt generating code is flawed, which looking at your pingback patch brought attention to. See #3495 So that code will likely be changing... I'll revisit this once that's taken care of. The best way to handle this will likely be to stick that extra data you need into the commentdata array. That way no new filters are needed at all (again, you'd just use preprocess_comment).

Thanks Mark. Naturally, I figured out that trackback_extend_comment was not needed sometme *after* I posted the patch. Oh well. Is there a milestone you'd expect the new pingback data to show up in?

Feature request so bumping to 2.6 for feature freeze.