Whenever I write a post on my blog and link to a previous post, that pingback shows up as a comment needing to be approved.
I am running Disqus, but this was happening even pre-use of that plugin.
What is the fix for this behavior?
2 Answers
The comment handling is somewhat difficult to follow in code. My educated guess is that you have comment whitelist enabled (Comment author must have previously approved comment), but since pingbacks are not identifiable by author they are treated as requiring moderation.