gwrowe

Thanks for the reply but this doesn’t really help. I know how pingbacks are supposed to work, but the problem is that they aren’t working. According to the docs

“Pingbacks also work within your site. This means that if you link to one of your own articles on the same site, then WordPress would automatically send a pingback to itself.”

This is exactly what isn’t happening. I have written several posts with links back to other posts within my site, but no pingback ever appears.

Update after installing wordpress 4.3:

I’ve been informed by the blog host (fasthosts.co.uk) that multiple pingbacks are incompatible with their servers. They say that pingbacks could lead to DDoS attacks. Given the amount of spam comments I receive (hundreds every day) I could well believe that someone would try multiple pingbacks as an attack, so I suppose it’s a legitimate concern.

The only workaround that I’ve found is to save the post in the wordpress editor as many times as there are links in the post, since on each save, another pingback is sent.

Multiple pingbacks do work on wordpress.com so either they aren’t concerned about DDoS, or they’ve modified the wordpress code to cope with the problem. In any case, it would be nice if some future version of www.remarpro.com fixed this problem.