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1. jackiefg
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Someone visited my site and did a trackback. I've seen the term before, but I never knew what they were talking about.
   The way it showed up in my email was that they put in <trackback /> and then some comments. Can someone tell me how I do this, for example if there's something I see on another site and I want to put a link in my site - do I put in my post a link to the trackback url and also go to their comments and put in my post? Or does that show up in their comments automatically if I put a link to their trackback?
   Can someone walk me through how this works? I've looked for posts on it but I don't find any that explain this.
   Thanks very much.

2. OperaManiac
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   http://wordpress.org/support/7/993 can give some hints.

3. southerngal
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Basically when you go to post, put that person's URL where it has it on the posting template. You can see it near the blog this button. Then it pings them and leaves the trackback on their site, in their comments or trackbacks. I have seen MT people trackback in a post to a WP post. Someone just did that this morning on my blog. Weird how it's different.
   Also read this: http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#trackback
   :)

4. jackiefg
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Thanks very much - that's what I didn't know - that the trackback is automatic if you put a link on there. I also saw the little trackback part where I post too. So is that how the person got a trackback into my comments? Or did she have to go and put a link into the comments manually?

5. Matt Mullenweg
   Troublemaker
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Sometimes it is manual and sometimes it's automatic.

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