Trackback doesn’t work
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Yes, of course they are working on it and if they had a quick solution they would have applied it. Please go through the steps Mark gave you. Thanks :)
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timethief, i’ve gone through the steps of Mark … one, two (…) i don’t know how many times ;-)
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This problem is really old and should be fixed fast. Ideas at the end of this post.
My test trackback from http://janschejbal.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/uber-sinn-und-unsinn-von-kopierschutz-und-drm/ to http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/2007/02/16/test-2-9/trackback/ did not work, the url is is still in the “Send trackbacks to”-field. My trackback is not in moderation too. Please fix this ASAP (cmon, this cant be THAT hard – what about logging outgoing connection attempts from your servers? Just set up a test server, look if trackbacks go out. If they do, try this with my blog, I am going to help you if you want. If trackbacks do not go out, set a firewall to log outgoing http connections to a certain server set up for trackback testing. If there is a http connection to the blog the trackback should go, sniff it so you can see what is wrong with the trackback sent. (Missing fields etc.) If there is no connection, try to find out why the trackback sender fails. There should be at least some error logs.) Contact me via my blog (just post a comment ANYWHERE) if you want me to help you. Not being able to send out trackbacks SUCKS, and while I love wordpress.com, I need to be able to send out trackbacks.
I think that possible causes might be:
Anti-Spam-systems running wild
Outgoing connection overloaded
Firewalls blocking outgoing connections
PHP security settings blocking outgoing connections
(the last 2 might explain why this happens only with certain blogs. Maybe only blogs on certain servers? The overload would explain why it sometimes works) -
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The weird thing is that I don’t experience any of these “problems” on any of my blogs. I assume that’s what makes them so hard for staff to track down and to address.
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By writing ” I then tried a reverse trackback by creating an entry on my blog and then posting a trackback from the test blog …” you gave me an idea.
I tried that from the test blog with the post “Just a trackback”
On the test blog side, it worked : a notification of sending a trackback to my blog is listed as “Already pinged”.
On my blog (them Andreas09), I was expecting either a trackback ot at least a message asking if I wanted to accept this trackback or not, but I received a comment whose author name is “Test Track” and content is the content of the post “Just a trackback” on the test blog.To sumarize :
– Trackback to my blog send a comment containing the text of this “Just a trackback” post but not a trackback
– Trackback from my blog to this “Just a trackback” post of the test blog does not work at all : nothing is received ont the test blog, neither a message awaiting for moderation, nor a message considered as spam :-((So, trackbacks do not work and reverse trackbacks (trackbacks from another blog to my own blog) do not work either.
I tried with the theme “Garland” : same result.
I tried with the theme “Fardtastic” : nothing at all ; even a try in the direction “Test blog” -> my blog does not give any result, not even the comment for the targeted post and the test blog is not pinged.Suggestion about this bug :
Trackbacks has been worked in December and until the beginning of January ; what could Workpress have changed in its code to cause this bug ? -
the problems happened before December too! It would be REALLY great if this could be fixed, as trackbacks are a really important thing for blogging. Trackbacks are what makes blogs so powerful, and now some users of one of the biggest blog hosters cannot use them. It really sucks.
In the meantime I use and suggest http://www.aylwardfamily.com/content/tbping.asp to send trackbacks manually. At least I can easily enter a summary and choose how the blog title should appear, using the “back” button after sending allows to send another trackback easily.
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@janschejbal
Thank you for this link.
I tried it 5 minutes ago with the Test blog but it sent a comment (queued in the Awaiting Moderation (3) or Akismet Spam (0) queues) but NOT a trackback.
I copied the trackback URL from two posts of the test blog and added /trackback/ at the end (else it does not work).When I approved my two trackbacks I posted 5 minutes ago, it set them as comments for the two posts I targeted but not as trackback.
So a question before trying with another blog : does this test blog, or even WordPress, accept trackbacks or not ?
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I have switched themes from ‘Garland’ to ‘Simpla’ and my trackbacks are now working perfectly.
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Is there any update on this ??
Is it related to themes?
It would be nice to know anything that would help to avoid…
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Wow you guys would be surprised. I still have this problem but on my own hosted blog from wordpress.org. Any update fixes?
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WordPress.com and wordpress.org operate on different software. Please post your question to the correct forum for wordpress.org bloggers as we cannot help you here http://wordpress.org/support
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I still have this problem and I’m still on WP.com; I just had a trackback from another WP.com blog show up, and it was made in JULY!
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