pingback() WordPress Function

The pingback() function is used to send a pingback to a specified URL. A pingback is a notification that is sent when one blog links to another. This function can be used to notify the author of the linked blog that their blog has been linked to.

pingback( string $content, int|WP_Post $post_id ) #

Pings back the links found in a post.


Parameters

$content

(string)(Required)Post content to check for links. If empty will retrieve from post.

$post_id

(int|WP_Post)(Required)Post Object or ID.


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Source

File: wp-includes/comment.php

function pingback( $content, $post_id ) {
	include_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php';
	include_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-http-ixr-client.php';

	// Original code by Mort (http://mort.mine.nu:8080).
	$post_links = array();

	$post = get_post( $post_id );
	if ( ! $post ) {
		return;
	}

	$pung = get_pung( $post );

	if ( empty( $content ) ) {
		$content = $post->post_content;
	}

	/*
	 * Step 1.
	 * Parsing the post, external links (if any) are stored in the $post_links array.
	 */
	$post_links_temp = wp_extract_urls( $content );

	/*
	 * Step 2.
	 * Walking through the links array.
	 * First we get rid of links pointing to sites, not to specific files.
	 * Example:
	 * http://dummy-weblog.org
	 * http://dummy-weblog.org/
	 * http://dummy-weblog.org/post.php
	 * We don't wanna ping first and second types, even if they have a valid <link/>.
	 */
	foreach ( (array) $post_links_temp as $link_test ) {
		// If we haven't pung it already and it isn't a link to itself.
		if ( ! in_array( $link_test, $pung, true ) && ( url_to_postid( $link_test ) != $post->ID )
			// Also, let's never ping local attachments.
			&& ! is_local_attachment( $link_test )
		) {
			$test = parse_url( $link_test );
			if ( $test ) {
				if ( isset( $test['query'] ) ) {
					$post_links[] = $link_test;
				} elseif ( isset( $test['path'] ) && ( '/' !== $test['path'] ) && ( '' !== $test['path'] ) ) {
					$post_links[] = $link_test;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	$post_links = array_unique( $post_links );

	/**
	 * Fires just before pinging back links found in a post.
	 *
	 * @since 2.0.0
	 *
	 * @param string[] $post_links Array of link URLs to be checked (passed by reference).
	 * @param string[] $pung       Array of link URLs already pinged (passed by reference).
	 * @param int      $post_ID    The post ID.
	 */
	do_action_ref_array( 'pre_ping', array( &$post_links, &$pung, $post->ID ) );

	foreach ( (array) $post_links as $pagelinkedto ) {
		$pingback_server_url = discover_pingback_server_uri( $pagelinkedto );

		if ( $pingback_server_url ) {
			set_time_limit( 60 );
			// Now, the RPC call.
			$pagelinkedfrom = get_permalink( $post );

			// Using a timeout of 3 seconds should be enough to cover slow servers.
			$client          = new WP_HTTP_IXR_Client( $pingback_server_url );
			$client->timeout = 3;
			/**
			 * Filters the user agent sent when pinging-back a URL.
			 *
			 * @since 2.9.0
			 *
			 * @param string $concat_useragent    The user agent concatenated with ' -- WordPress/'
			 *                                    and the WordPress version.
			 * @param string $useragent           The useragent.
			 * @param string $pingback_server_url The server URL being linked to.
			 * @param string $pagelinkedto        URL of page linked to.
			 * @param string $pagelinkedfrom      URL of page linked from.
			 */
			$client->useragent = apply_filters( 'pingback_useragent', $client->useragent . ' -- WordPress/' . get_bloginfo( 'version' ), $client->useragent, $pingback_server_url, $pagelinkedto, $pagelinkedfrom );
			// When set to true, this outputs debug messages by itself.
			$client->debug = false;

			if ( $client->query( 'pingback.ping', $pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto ) || ( isset( $client->error->code ) && 48 == $client->error->code ) ) { // Already registered.
				add_ping( $post, $pagelinkedto );
			}
		}
	}
}


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Changelog

Changelog
VersionDescription
4.7.0$post_id can be a WP_Post object.
0.71Introduced.

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