Trackbacks don’t seem to be working

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    moojik · Member ·

    I have entries in my site that received backlinks from others’ (indexed and not relatively new) sites but has not been reflected in the trackbacks.

    Could it be my settings are wrong or something as I do receive trackbacks from internal links when I crosslinked posts. Fyi, trackbacks & comments are enabled in those posts.

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    jrawle · Member ·

    When you first write a post, trackbacks work fine. You can save the article as a draft, and it still works. When you finally publish the post, trackbacks are sent.

    The problem is if the post is re-edited. The previously-sent trackbacks are listed as bullet points, and there is a box above inviting you to enter further trackbacks. However, these further trackbacks are never sent. On my WordPress (2.0.4), new trackbacks remain listed in the input box and are never added to the bulleted list, no matter how many times I save the post.

    From the layout of the editor, it seems the intention is to allow extra trackbacks to be added when re-editing a post. This doesn’t work, so it looks like a bug.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @jrawle
    I’m glad you clarified this I observed the same phenomena a month ago on one of my blogs as well one posts I re-edtied and added text and trackbacks to but I didn’t bring it up at the time. So I believe this should be put on the “insect control” list and “swatted”.

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