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Ovidiu on "understanding pingbacks and xml-rpc"

Ovidiu — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:55:05 +0000

oh, forgot about those. ok thanks :-)

I was simply confused by the fact that there is a separate XML-RPC setting for remote publishing...

Philip John on "understanding pingbacks and xml-rpc"

Philip John — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:53:02 +0000

- can any blog in a multisite installation send/receive pingbacks by default?

Yep!

- what can I do as site admin to enable/disable these features?

Go to Settings>Discussion>Default article settings and uncheck the box next to "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)"

I can't find a way to do that for all blogs at once though. Of course, you could use New Blog Templates to make sure that all new blogs have trackbacks turned off!

Phil

Ovidiu on "understanding pingbacks and xml-rpc"

Ovidiu — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:52:54 +0000

thanks. I've read quite a few articles about this matter today but still got these two questions:

- can any blog in a multisite installation send/receive pingbacks by default?
- what can I do as site admin to enable/disable these features?

Philip John on "understanding pingbacks and xml-rpc"

Philip John — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:34:14 +0000

Hiya!

Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC are disabled for new blogs but I thought that was only for users publishing remotely to their blog

Yep, that's correct!

The pingback line is all about administering pingbacks between blogs. You can read up more about how that all works at http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks

Cheers!
Phil

Ovidiu on "understanding pingbacks and xml-rpc"

Ovidiu — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:29:38 +0000

I picked a random blog from my multisite install, the theme seems to have the correct hooks set and in the source code of the page I do find:
<link rel="pingback" href="http://marius.zice.ro/xmlrpc.php" />

does this mean this blog can receive pingbacks? can it also send pingbacks to other blogs?

if I click that rpc link I get this feedback in my browser:

XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.

is this ok? any configuration I am missing?
by default Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC are disabled for new blogs but I thought that was only for users publishing remotely to their blog.
can someone enlighten me a little, please?

drmike on "Windows Live Writer support like XMP-RPC?"

drmike — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:10:58 +0000

When it first came out, it used xmlrpc. I remember that because it had a compatibility problem with wp and data didn't mash up right. That was a couple of years ago though.

edit: Hmmm, first WLW question I've had in years now that I think about it.

Mason on "Windows Live Writer support like XMP-RPC?"

Mason — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:36:50 +0000

Hiya!

I know Supporter includes the option to make remote publishing using XML-RPC a supporter-only feature, but does this include use of Windows Live Writer too?

My assumption would be yes as well, but I haven't tried using Windows Live Writer. Give it a shot and please let us know how it goes!

Thanks!

Philip John on "Windows Live Writer support like XMP-RPC?"

Philip John — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:22:07 +0000

I know Supporter includes the option to make remote publishing using XML-RPC a supporter-only feature, but does this include use of Windows Live Writer too?

I assume it does but I don't know how WLW works so thought I'd ask the question that doesn't seem to have been covered yet...

Aaron on "Additional Privacy plugin and xml-rpc"

Aaron — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:46:20 +0000

You would have to edit the plugin to not redirect visits to the xmlrpc.php file.

vassarcollege on "Additional Privacy plugin and xml-rpc"

vassarcollege — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:38:15 +0000

Our install has the additional-privacy plug-in which is important for us. But when I try to use ScribeFire or other blog editor I receive errors. If I remove additional-privacy or change my blog's privacy level to one of the defaults (i.e. visible to all and search engines or visible to all but not search engines), the errors go away and I can edit posts.

Is there a way to have a private blog and edit via xml-rpc?
Thanks,
David

drmike on "Enabling XML-RPC in all blogs"

drmike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:55:06 +0000

Give a looksee at WPMu Power Tools. My understanding is that you can set it up to run though the blogs in order. If you can figure out what you need to do to turn on xmlrpc, that should work for you.

http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-power-tools/

Andrew on "Enabling XML-RPC in all blogs"

Andrew — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:04:16 +0000

Hiya,

You can either write a script that will loop through all blogs or you can toss a plugin into mu-plugins that will enable it the next time someone logs in to a blog. Either way you're going to have to do a bit of custom coding I'm afraid.

Thanks,
Andrew

kbaxter on "Enabling XML-RPC in all blogs"

kbaxter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:53:39 +0000

Do you know an easy way to enable XML-RPC (settings/writing) in all of my blogs? It's currently disabled and I would like to enable it across the hundreds of blogs on my Mu install.

Thank you,

Keith

Christopher Price on "Trackbacks and Pingbacks"

Christopher Price — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:28:21 +0000

I should also say that all of the Default article settings are checked on both blogs:

Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
Allow people to post comments on new articles

Christopher Price on "Trackbacks and Pingbacks"

Christopher Price — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:29:06 +0000

I'm finding that trackbacks and pingbacks are not working reliably with my main blog or any of the hosted blog accounts. Of course, I would prefer that pingbacks just work since they are supposed to be effortless.

I have "Allow pings" checked on every post and page and "Allow comments" on the majority.

I don't know if it matters, but I have XML-RPC enabled on some blogs to allow software updates, but it doesn't seem to make a difference to pingbacks.

I usually get a pingback if I link between articles in the same blog. I'm puzzled. For example, http://bestagentblogs.com/twitter-in-plain-english-video/ shows the pingback from http://bestagentblogs.com/blogs-in-plain-english-video/ (I deleted most pingbacks among these pages, but left this one as an example.)

I created this page to test:
http://bestagentblogs.com/trackback-pingback-test/

Update: Nothing appears in the "Discussion" section of the initiating blog to indicate that a ping was sent anywhere.