No Self Pings in WordPress Core

[chmac]

There's a great plugin called ​No Self Ping which stops WordPress pinging itself. It's less than a dozen lines of code, and it seems like a really obvious feature (almost a bug in WordPress). I've attached a patch to add it to core.

There may be a smarter way to figure out if the post is submitting back to ourself, but I figured this would cover most cases. It might be possible to add a unique string to the ping request so we can detect it and ignore it if it's from our own site, but this seemed simpler.

[Viper007Bond]

Not sure how I feel about this. I kinda like the pings, but I guess could always add a plugin to reverse this.

So yeah, I guess the default should no self ping with the option via a plugin to allow it.

[Viper007Bond]

Remove self-pings via a filter (literal copy/paste of the plugin)

[Viper007Bond]

Your patch would fail for http://remotesite.com/post.php?about=http://www.myblog.com/, plus there's no way to remove the feature.

Attached patch adds in mdawaffe's plugin (literally a copy/paste) as a filter so it can be removed by a plugin.

[Viper007Bond]

Oh, and when making a patch, make sure to create it from the WordPress root. Your patch is missing the relative path (/wp-includes/). ;)

[Viper007Bond]

Avoid function name collisions with the plugin

[foolswisdom]

-1, I know a lot of people that enjoy the current behavior. It also benefits by being consistent. I don't see a strong argument that the current behavior is "almost a bug".

[Viper007Bond]

I agree isn't a bug. Just comes down to which the majority of people prefer.

It's also easy to delete a self ping but it's harder to resend one. Hmm.

I don't know now honestly. heh

[westi]

-1

I think this should stay as a plugin.

[zamoose]

-1 from me as well.

I rather enjoy seeing the cross-mojination that I have going on in my posts.

[markjaquith]

-1 -- it gives context to the linked post, without you having to say "Update: I wrote more about this HERE"