self pingbacks not working

  • i have a private wordpress i’m running on my own server. i use https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/member-access/ to keep it private (i expect to make a portion of it public eventually). i also have the following settings set to true:
    “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”
    “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article”
    “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)”

    i have permalinks enabled to “/%postname%/”

    publishing a new post that includes a full link to a previous post (either in permalink or “?p=123” format) does not generate any comment or pingback. i don’t control the local network/firewall, so that could be the issue.

    is this expected to work? how can i debug it?

    googling suggests that the “hide from search engines” will prevent the generation of pingbacks — is that true? it’s not documented anywhere and is confusing/unexpected.

    in general, i think it would be useful to have a way to mark a post as a follow up to another post, which would be indicated as links between both posts that are more specific than a comment/pingback. is there a way to do this that i’m missing?

    thanks!
    -e

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  • Thread Starter eflister

    (@eflister)

    turns out it was because of the members-access plugin.
    if i turn that off, i do get the self-pingbacks.
    however, i have to keep approving them, even though i have this set:
    “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”

    why don’t they auto-approve once i’ve approved the first one?

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