Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#38207 new enhancement
Disable Trackbacks by Default Keep Pingbacks On
Reported by: | dshanske | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | low |
Severity: | minor | Version: | |
Component: | Pings/Trackbacks | Keywords: | has-ui-feedback has-ux-feedback dev-feedback |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Trackback is a manual technology. Pingback is an automated technology(automatically pings sites linked to in post content).
The question comes from me as the component maintainer and I'm opening this as a place for if the proliferation of Trackback Spam and the manual requirement has made it worth disabling the receipt and/or sending of trackbacks by default while leaving pingbacks enabled.
I continue to be committed to pingback and the concept in general, but I have to ask regarding the interest in trackback. I'm putting out a call for comment in this regard.
The only recent trackback related requests involve expensive queries to send trackbacks(See #36824).
Related #37007.
Change History (8)
#2
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8 years ago
I think I've seen discussion of this somewhere else, but I'm +1 for disabling Trackbacks by default (and hiding any associated UI)
#4
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8 years ago
- Keywords has-ui-feedback has-ux-feedback added; ui-feedback ux-feedback removed
+1 for disabling trackbacks by default.
#6
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8 years ago
+100 Yep it should be disabled by default.
Replying to karmatosed:
+1 for disabling trackbacks by default.
#7
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8 years ago
Just looked in the schema.php and use_trackback was defined as 0, so if it was set there it would be set as 1.
Does anyone know where in core, trackback is defined as on by?
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=trackback
+1 to disable Trackback by default while keeping Pingback enabled for new installation.
It would reduce one more step from my tasks list for setting up a new site. :)