Comments on: TrackBack Discussion http://wordpress.org/news/2003/06/trackback-discussion/ WordPress News Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-RC1 By: Dougal Campbell http://wordpress.org/news/2003/06/trackback-discussion/#comment-201 Dougal Campbell Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/development/2003/06/trackback-discussion/#comment-201 The pingback code I implemented for MyPHPBlog does link verification and attempts to getn an excerpt. Right now, it will fail to get certain exerpts from WordPress pings, because WordPress will re-encode URLs that contain ampersands, which will cause my matching to fail. But it will be simple to rework the code to handle that. I'm already planning to do some serious refactoring of the WP *back code anyhow. The pingback code I implemented for MyPHPBlog does link verification and attempts to getn an excerpt. Right now, it will fail to get certain exerpts from WordPress pings, because WordPress will re-encode URLs that contain ampersands, which will cause my matching to fail. But it will be simple to rework the code to handle that.

I’m already planning to do some serious refactoring of the WP *back code anyhow.

]]> By: Mike http://wordpress.org/news/2003/06/trackback-discussion/#comment-200 Mike Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:27:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/development/2003/06/trackback-discussion/#comment-200 I agree and disagree. Depending on what you what to achieve as a final outcome. For me, simply seeing where my visitors come from is more important to me that knowing they were further commenting on a post that maybe I was commenting on (ad nauseum) as was the original concept that Ben Trott devised when formulating Trackbacks. That process has become too messy and convoluted to be implemented by general bloggers - more often left to the wise few. Most plebs (read newbies/bloggies) would simply apppreciate knowing that someone reached their site/article via another after they had clicked a link in an article (keh?) . Maybe I'm presuming that my surfing habits are not too dissimilar to many others when writing this, but If you are considering a referrer/trackback system then my money is on a referrer type... RSS is for the techno adicts and news-readers - not for the masses (is this a masses app?). Sigh - I have said too much. I agree and disagree. Depending on what you what to achieve as a final outcome. For me, simply seeing where my visitors come from is more important to me that knowing they were further commenting on a post that maybe I was commenting on (ad nauseum) as was the original concept that Ben Trott devised when formulating Trackbacks. That process has become too messy and convoluted to be implemented by general bloggers – more often left to the wise few.

Most plebs (read newbies/bloggies) would simply apppreciate knowing that someone reached their site/article via another after they had clicked a link in an article (keh?) . Maybe I’m presuming that my surfing habits are not too dissimilar to many others when writing this, but If you are considering a referrer/trackback system then my money is on a referrer type…

RSS is for the techno adicts and news-readers – not for the masses (is this a masses app?). Sigh – I have said too much.

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