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."

[desrosj]

Related: #65016

[dshanske]

I withdrew as Pingback maintainer years ago, as I switched to a successor protocol, webmention, but as similar, still think about this. For webmentions, we did add an option to allow self pings or discard them. That might work here, even if it is a filter not a setting that controls it.