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1. andreasbalzer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi! First of all, i'm sorry, that my keyboard just sent the ENTER key a liitle bit to fast... :-/
   Ok..

   I have a little problem with trackbacks. There is a blog with some entries that only has the standard parameter url.. (http://domain.com/path/to/wordpress/?p=3)
   I would like to create a trackback, but there's no trackback url displayed. Is it possible to create one, and how to get the url? Is it something like ?trackback=yes or so..?

   Please help me!

   Greetings
   Andreas

2. jonlandrum
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   If you've got your WP set to automatically send trackbacks/pingbacks, then simply linking to the blog article from your entry will send the trackback without further input from you.

3. andreasbalzer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   thanks for the answer!

   Greetings
   Andreas

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   @jonlandrum,
   half-true.
   Simply linking to a blog article sends a pingback, not a trackback. For sending a trackback you do need the TB URL of the other post to put it in the designated field in the Write area.

5. jonlandrum
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Ah. Okay. Glad to know that. This whole time I thought they were synonyms. ;o)

6. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   They are different, but not in any really significant end-user noticable way, IMO. Sometimes pingbacks won't display excerpts on the blog being pinged, sometimes they will. Depends on the pingback receiving blog. Main advantage to pingbacks is that they are automatic. Simply linking to somebody's blog will generate a pingback.

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