X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/e6992480e2e0cf965650f84aa97e01fe0fa71544..651cdd4b2a85f4e5f9d298a7eea7d0e6d94442b1:/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn index 6632cc747..5d93e6094 100644 --- a/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,45 @@ case I will consider this done with an entry in [[tips]]; otherwise a [[plugins|plugin]] to implement pingbacks would be great. -- [[Jon]] (Wed Jan 14 13:48:47 GMT 2009) + +> I think it's now possible to implement trackback and pingback receiving +> support in ikiwiki. One easy way to do it would be to hook it into the +> existing [[plugins/comments]] plugin -- each pingback/trackback that +> ikiwiki recieves would result in the creation if a new comment, which +> would be subject to the usual comment filtering (ie, blogspam) and +> moderation and would then show up amoung the other, regular comments on +> the page. +> +> (One wrinkle: would need to guard against duplicate pings. Maybe by +> checking existing comments for any that have the same url?) +> +> As for sending trackbacks and pingbacks, this could fairly easily be +> implemented using a `editcontent` hook. Since this hook is called +> whenever a page is posted or edited, and gets the changed content, it can +> simply scan it for urls (may have to htmlize first?), and send pings to +> all urls found. --[[Joey]] + +>> Is there any update on this? This would be highly useful and is the main reason why I am not using my blog more regularly, yet. (And yes, now that git-annex is doing everything I need and more, I thought I should revisit this one, as well). -- RichiH + +---- + +Happy 9th anniversary, bug! + +For whatever reason I was compelled to look at this situation afresh. I've +added some instrumentation to my own site to see whether there's any external +attempts to issue pingbacks to my own site, to gauge whether it's worthwhile +spending any more time on this. But it looks like pingback in the wider world +might be dead or dying. + +[I started a conversation on Twitter with the inventor of Pingback to see what +he thought](https://twitter.com/jmtd/status/1042730998839107585). He suggested +taking a look at "webmentions". here's some preliminary reading on those: + + * + * + * + +At this point I don't know if webmentions actually has more traction than pingback, +but the key issue I guess is whether it's growing. I'm going to (but am yet to) add +corresponding instrumentation to my site to try and track that, too. +-- [[Jon]] (2018-09-24)