Pingbacks have stopped working
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As of this Monday none of my posts are generating pingbacks. @wordpressdotcom suggested I start a new topic here but I see that there’s already a thread of some other people experiencing the same issue as well.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingbacks-to-my-own-articles-not-working/
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi njwv,
I noticed there are several sites listed in your account, one of which uses WordPress.org software (Jetpack connected site). What is the address of the site where you placed the link? And which site should it be creating a pingback to?
Let’s go from there…
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Not a problem, they are indeed pingbanks to my own articles.
General site: https://aleaguefc577192867.wordpress.com/
Example of an article containing a pingback link: https://aleaguefc577192867.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/made-of-newcastle-thursday-2nd-may/
Example of the pingbacked article where there’s no pending pingback to approve: https://aleaguefc577192867.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/made-of-newcastle-wednesday-1st-may/I want to stress, the link does work. You click it and it takes you to the other article. There’s just no pingback reference as a comment on that other article.
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“The blog I need help with is njwv.wordpress.com.”
My last two posts have not generated any pingbacks to the earlier posts on my blog that they link to.
https://njwv.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/a-pair-of-giants/ links to https://njwv.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/philadelphia/ https://njwv.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/memory-lane/ https://njwv.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/the-simple-pleasure-of-a-single-ball/ and https://njwv.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/giants-clinics/
https://njwv.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/ttm-roundup-april-edition/ links to https://njwv.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/first-ttm-roundup/ https://njwv.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/stanford-alumni-game/ and https://njwv.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/always-carry-a-spare-ball/
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I participate in a number of blog hops that depend on pingbacks to inform the members that someone has posted. The last couple of weeks, pingbacks have been sporadic, sometimes working, usually not. They’re practically never working now: see https://thesoundofonehandtyping.com/2019/05/04/raining-animals-socs/, which should pingback to https://lindaghill.com/2019/05/03/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-4-19/ but didn’t. Both my blog and the pinged blog are on WordPress.com.
Additionally, my weekly summary post (https://thesoundofonehandtyping.com/2019/05/05/la-edicion-del-cinco-de-mayo-de-la-semana-que-fue/) has multiple links to posts on my own blog, and none of them pinged back.
As you can imagine, the pingback function is pretty important to the blog hops that use it. I hope this isn’t some backdoor way to “encourage” us to use the Gutenberg editor……
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Hi there,
Thanks for all the links. We’ve had several more reports of this happening, but it’s unclear at this time what is causing it. We’re looking into it, and will update this thread once we have more info.
To help us try to narrow down the cause, can you please let me know whether these posts were scheduled or directly published? And did you use the classic editor or the block editor, and via My Sites or WP-Admin?
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Hi kokkieh.
For mine, it’s a mixture of scheduled and directly published. Not sure what editor I’m using, I just click in top left corner ‘My Site’ and ‘Add’ beside Blog Post.
Thanks
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All of my posts are written using the wp-admin editor in HTML mode. With the one from Saturday, the attempted pingback was written using Markdown; the Sunday pingbacks used native HTML. Saturday’s post was scheduled, while Sunday’s was directly published. In short, it made no difference how I attempted the pingback, it didn’t work.
Hve fun…
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aleaguefc01 –
Pass along the URL of where you’re making the posts from. That will tell us which editor you’re using.
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Hi,
I already have, I’m permanently logged in to WordPress so all I do is head to https://aleaguefc577192867.wordpress.com/ and click ‘My Site’ in the corner, that opens a menu and then I click ‘Add’ beside Blog Posts.
Tech isn’t my strength I’m afraid, so I use the simplest route to make my posts.
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Thanks aleaguefc01. After you click new, does it take you to
wordpress.com/post
or
wordpress.com/block-editor/post ?
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Thanks aleaguefc01. We’ll keep digging on this and update when we have more information.
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Hi all, can you confirm whether you’re now getting pingbacks again? We think we’ve spotted and corrected the problem.
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Hi supervovia, I can confirm have just been asked to confirm a pingback. Thank you for your help.
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