I’m still experiencing problems with trackbacks in WordPress 2.0.1

3 Comments

1. Mitch says:

   February 22, 2006 at 3:19 pm

   Emily -

   Could you clarify, as if for a second-grader, where and how and why you use trackbacks?

   I’m still not really getting it.

   Let’s assume hypothetically that I have a blog that deals with, say, personal growth. If I see something really good at another person’s blog that I wish to comment on in my own blog, then I copy and paste that person’s permalink into the box on my write post interface, right?

   Is it then that my comment (or a snippet of my comment) automatically appears at the end of their post (or at the end of all the other comments there)? If they’re moderating their comments, then they can choose whether or not to allow my comment to appear there, right?

   Can you use the word ‘trackback’ in a sentence that might make more sense to me? I’ve done a lot of reading on this, but again, it’s a somewhat complex and confusing subject. Any clarification?

   You seem to have a real handle on this stuff.

   Thanks. Feel free to invoke an actual trackback to my blog if you like. I have moderation enabled however.
2. Jean-Marc Liotier says:

   February 28, 2006 at 3:18 pm

   I was wondering if I was the only one noticing the absence of automatic pings from my WordPress setup. I find it suprising that such fundamental defect is not more widely reported.
3. Amos says:

   March 4, 2006 at 3:00 am

   Hi Emily,
   Nice writeup. I’m facing this dreaded problem too.
   I just realized it after I was searching for my own post in Technorati.
   To my surprise, none showed up.

   Have you found a fix for it yet?