WordPress.com Forums » Topic: "No self-ping" advice is flawed. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed WordPress.com Forums » Topic: "No self-ping" advice is flawed. en Sat, 25 May 2013 12:28:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17934 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:59:49 +0000 timethief 17934@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Vivian I added this option of not pinging your own blog to the ongoing on-negotiable theme features list thread too http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=2859&page=2&replies=40

]]> sunburntkamel on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17919 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:55:26 +0000 sunburntkamel 17919@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ wow, that's weird. you could just go find the old post, right click on the image, and choose 'copy image location', and then use the insert image button to add just the image, without the link.

certainly more of a pain than the 'browse all' in the image upload section.

you could also submit feedback asking for an option to not send pingbacks to your own blog.

]]> vivianpaige on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17862 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:19:53 +0000 vivianpaige 17862@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm getting pingbacks simply for re-using photos in another post. Any way to stop that?

]]> wrathchild on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17785 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:40:19 +0000 wrathchild 17785@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Alas, I did that and received a pingback.

]]> wrathchild on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17783 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:38:20 +0000 wrathchild 17783@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out.

]]> sunburntkamel on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17732 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:37:46 +0000 sunburntkamel 17732@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ another way to do it that should work, is to link to the comments section of the page:

http://wrathchild.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/lemmings-in-your-web-browser#postcomment

that usually stops pingbacks, and is still absolute.

]]> wrathchild on ""No self-ping" advice is flawed." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-self-ping-advice-is-flawed#post-17727 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:08:10 +0000 wrathchild 17727@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am referring to the FAQ entry entitled "Can I stop self-pings?"

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/04/23/can-i-stop-self-pings/

Following the advice in that FAQ entry does indeed prevent self-pings and trackbacks.

However, when reading posts in a web-based feed aggregator, such as Bloglines, clicking such a link brings one to a non-existent page in the domain of the web aggregator.

Real example:

http://wrathchild.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/has-copyright-gone-too-far-or-are-people-being-too-broad-in-trying-to-apply-it/ has a link to http://wrathchild.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/lemmings-in-your-web-browser/ but, of course, since I want to prevent a ping-back, in my article I only used /2006/07/13/lemmings-in-your-web-browser/ (per the FAQ).

When reading that article in Bloglines, however, and clicking that link, I am taken to http://www.bloglines.com/2006/07/13/lemmings-in-your-web-browser/, which of course does not exist.

I've also seen this behavior on non-Wordpress.com blogs.

I expect tweaking the RSS feed to always include the full URI in tags should fix this problem.

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