Whitelist trackbacks/pingbacks from own site

[eurello]

Currently, if a user has only "Comment author must have a previously approved comment" selected in Settings->Discussion, pingbacks from their own blog are still held for moderation every time. Users would expect that, given those discussion settings, once they'd approved one self-ping, all future self-pings would appear without requiring moderation.

There is a past ticket about this here: #999

[stevegrunwell]

If a pingback or trackback is coming from a domain that already submitted an approved comment (of that type) will be automatically approved.

[stevegrunwell]

Refreshed patch that properly prepares SQL queries, has unit tests, and better adheres to the WordPress coding standards.

[avcascade]

Would love to see this enhancement make it into 4.5. It'd be nice to stop having to approve self-pings.

[dshanske]

Just wondering, considering that unlike outside sites, if the goal of this is self-pings, if there is a way to do it that doesn't involve a query like this by having a filter that accepts self-pings by default and can be disabled with a simple line of code added?

[dshanske]

WP_Comment_Query now supports author_url as a parameter. As there are advantages to using the Comment_Query class over direct SQL, suggesting we refresh the patch with that.

[desrosj]

I came to express a different opinion for this one.

Personally, I delete all pingbacks from my own site because I do not want the internal references to drown out comments from external sources or visitors. Instead, I make use of "related posts" to list related contents.

That said, I agree that it's a bit strange that the same site is not considered "trusted" or having pre-approved comments. Personally I would like a way to say "allow pingbacks/trackbacks, but not from my own site."