Opened 16 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#10094 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Move pingback <link> to wp_head?
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | minor | Version: | 2.8 |
| Component: | Template | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Looks like we have everything but the pingback tag being automatically outputted. Let's make it even easier on theme authors.
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
One concern: will blogs get double pinged or encounter any other issues if there are two pingback <link>s?
Change History (4)
#1
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16 years ago
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 2.9
- Severity changed from normal to minor
#4
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15 years ago
- Keywords close removed
- Milestone Future Release deleted
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
According to the pingback spec:
Pages MUST NOT include more than one such element, and MUST NOT include such a string matching the pattern described below unless it is intended to be the link element.
Since adding this would potentially cause a number of problems we should probably not do this.
In addition the spec says that if you send an X-Pingback http header then it is unnecessary to also include the <link> element. The X-Pingback header will supersede the <link> element in the event of a discrepancy anyway. So I don't think we lose anything by not adding this.
Closing as wontfix.
suggesting to close this one, due to backwards compat considerations.