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Consider Removing Trackbacks and Ping #836

Open eSilverStrike opened 6 years ago

eSilverStrike commented 6 years ago

I think we should consider removing Trackback , Ping and Pingback from Geeklog.

Google recently dropped support for pinging Blog Search:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-blogsearch-ping-going-away-25241.html

Plus Ping-O-Matic is the only major ping server left (all others have disappeared). It use to ping dozens of other services and now it only has 3 left listed.

All search engines main tool for discovering new content is a websites site index. No one uses trackbacks anymore (thanks to spam) and pinging is disappearing as well.

Plus we have the Xmlsitemap plugin which creates a site index file and notifies search engines about new content.

danstoner commented 5 years ago

Agreed. I disabled those on my Geeklog site long ago due to abuse.

eSilverStrike commented 4 years ago

Note that the RPC class this stuff uses has been depreciated. The recommended one is now

https://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC2

It looks like pingback.php uses the RPC server (XML_RPC_Server, XML_RPC_Response) while everything else uses the RPC Client (XML_RPC_Client), etc... Nothing else in Geeklog seems to use it now.

Do plugins?????? Is it okay to remove?

eSilverStrike commented 4 years ago

When removing should also remember to remove everything associated with it like language variables, images, and other classes like Pears HTTP_Request2 (if it is not used anywhere else).