id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
6698,Editing a published post causes excessive pings / closing comments on old posts causes trackbacks,lapcat,,"I moderate all comments, and I was tired of spam comments on old posts sometimes slipping by Akismet and getting into my moderation queue, so I decided to close comments on a number of old posts. Steps to reproduce: (1) Click the ""Manage"" tab in the admin page for my blog. (2) Click ""Posts"" under ""Manage"". (3) Find a post. (4) Click ""Edit"" for that post. (5) Uncheck ""Allow Comments"" under ""Discussion"". (6) Click ""Save"".

As a result of doing this, I immediately got a number of trackbacks in my moderation queue. The trackbacks were from the posts whose comments I had just closed. The trackbacks were to other posts in my blog that were linked from those posts. Note that when I unchecked ""Allow Comments"", I did not uncheck ""Allow Pings"". I left ""Allow Pings"" checked.

Under ""Options"", ""Discussion"", I currently have ""Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article"" checked. However, I believe that at some point in the past, that option was unchecked, so the old posts whose comments I closed may have never attempted to send trackbacks before.

I believe that this is a bug. Simply closing comments for a post should not cause it to send trackbacks.

",defect (bug),assigned,normal,Future Release,Pings/Trackbacks,2.8.1,normal,,needs-patch,rtz@… VoxPelli christianbolstad dkikizas@…