Trackback URL for wordpress.com blogs?

• 

  quantumcrypto · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 8:39 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hello All,

  What is the Trackback URL for posts on wordpress.com blogs?

  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  roseknows · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 8:42 pm

  • Copy link

  Please read this page: http://support.wordpress.com/comments/trackbacks/

• 

  quantumcrypto · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 8:55 pm

  • Copy link

  Rose,

  I did read that before posting this question, but it did not answer my question.

  I am looking for the URL that I can use to send trackbacks to wordpress.com blog.

  Thanks
  Saqib

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:11 pm

  • Copy link

  @quantumcrypto-If your blog is on WordPress.com and you link to another WordPress.com blog in your post, the trackback is automatically sent.

  From the Trackback Module in your Post Editor, “Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If you link other WordPress blogs they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks, no other action necessary.” (emphasis mine)

• 

  roseknows · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:15 pm

  • Copy link

  Can you explain in more detail what you are trying to do so I can give you better support?

• 

  quantumcrypto · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:21 pm

  • Copy link

  Rose,

  I have a IBM blog, and I wanna send trackback to a friend’s wordpress.com blog post. However I don’t know what trackback URL to use.

  Saqib

• 

  quantumcrypto · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:23 pm

  • Copy link

  The IBM blog is not a wordpress blog.

• 

  roseknows · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:23 pm

  • Copy link

  Click on the title of their blog post and that will give you a URL for just that post.

• 

  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:48 pm

  • Copy link

  If you link to their blog in a post or page, their blog will automatically be pinged by wordpress if they have theirs set up to accept pings. Trackbacks are for “old” legacy blogging systems.

• 

  raptortech97 · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:53 pm

  • Copy link

  If you don’t want to link, it can be found when you go into a post, or for wordpress at
  http://the_blog_name.wordpress.com/the_year/the_month/the_day/the_post_name/trackback

• 

  quantumcrypto · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 11:29 pm

  • Copy link

  @raptortech97:

  Thank you. Thank you!!!!

  That is exactly what I was looking for. I knew about the auto-ping using links, but I needed a explicit trackback URL, which you provided.

  Thanks :)
  Saqib

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 11:53 pm

  • Copy link

  If you’re looking at the specific post, the URL is in your browser bar as you will see. Just copy and paste from there to eliminate any typos.

• 

  raptortech97 · Member · Sep 4, 2009 at 12:30 am

  • Copy link

  @raincoaster
  you have to add a /trackback at the end.

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 am

  • Copy link

  Ah,. thanks. When I’m on cold drugs, I’m not exactly detail-oriented.