February 1, 2006
I’m still experiencing problems with trackbacks in WordPress 2.0.1
So far I’ve only had the opportunity to test how WordPress 2.0.1 handles sending of automatic trackbacks (in the Options|Discussion tab, we’re presented with a checkbox that
says, “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows
down posting.)”
What that means is that for any article linked to in a particular
post, wordpress should automatically be sending a ping to alert that
article that you’ve written about them, saving you the time of having
to manually paste their trackback URI into the Trackbacks section of
the Write Post screen.
On what was initially my WP 2.0 Test blog (and which is now my WP 2.0.1 Test Blog), I had reported that in WordPress 2.0, the only blogs that seemed to receive these automatic trackback pings were other WordPress 2.0 blogs.
I had hoped that these problems would be resolved in
WordPress 2.0.1, but instead they seem to have worsened, with even more
erratic results than before:
- again, no trackback pings to WordPress 1.5.x blogs or TypePad blogs got sent
- again, the only time WP properly sent a single ping to a referenced post was when it was pinging the same version of wordpress, this time from v2.0.1 to v2.0.1
- duplicate pings were sent to WordPress 2.0 blogs that were referenced in a wordpress 2.0.1 post, AND
- duplicate pings were also sent to wordpress.com blogs that were referenced in a wordpress 2.0.1 post - making you look like a spammer
What a bummer.
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February 22, 2006
Mitch said:
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.
February 28, 2006
Jean-Marc Liotier said:
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.
March 4, 2006
Amos said:
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?