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1. Donal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   When I'm building a WordPress theme and styling the comments section I can easily add dummy comments to my test site to make sure they're displaying the way I want them to. Is there any similar way to add dummy pingbacks and trackbacks to posts on a test site to make sure they're displaying properly?

2. Curtiss Grymala
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Trackbacks should be easy. Just create a new post and add a link that leads back to your other post. WordPress should pick up that link as a trackback (though, I think you might have to have your site setup to be available to search engines [Settings -> Privacy] for that to work).

3. Donal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Curtiss - I'll try that now.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Or use the Theme_Unit_Test

5. Donal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Worked perfectly :)

   You're right - I had to set my test site to public for it to work. I also had to enable the 'Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article' setting on the [Settings -> Discussion] page.

   Much appreciated Curtiss. That helped me out a lot :)

6. Donal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks esmi. I'll download the test data and give it a try too.

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