Title: automatic trackback on wordpress ? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # automatic trackback on wordpress ? * [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/) * (@marcomail) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/) * I want understand if in wordpress the trackback is automatic or not…if i don’t put the trackback URL when i writing a new entry, wordpress have an automatic system to notify my entry ? is there some explanation of this ? Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/) * (@rudolf45) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554733) * There are trackbacks (TB) and there are pingbacks (PB). * To send a TB to another blog – you need to enter the TB URL in the field below the post. To send PB – you need to have a link in your post to the post’s permalink in another blog. * Reference: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks) * Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/) * (@marcomail) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554738) * Thanks! But which blog accept pingbacks ? * [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/) * (@rudolf45) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554740) * That is entirely up to the blog owner and you cannot do anything about it. * Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/) * (@marcomail) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554745) * i read if a wordpress blog have this in the header “link rel=”pingback” href=” [http://www.site.com/xmlrpc.php”](http://www.site.com/xmlrpc.php”); the blog accept pingbacks…is correct ? But usually which blog accept pingbacks? Movabletype, wordpress etc etc ? * [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/) * (@rudolf45) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554746) * I don’t know. Theoretically, both WP and MT can accept pingbacks but as the owner of the blog I can set it up not to receive any PB or TB at all or on a post by post basis. Man, look around in the admin panel of your blog and learn. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554748) * Any type of site can accept a pingback, if they are coded to do it. Most blog systems can. But whether any given blog does or not is up to that blog. * Pingbacks are automatic and you don’t need to worry about them. * Trackbacks are not automatic, and you should probably only do them when you’re replying specifically to somebody else’s blog entry on your own blog. * Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/) * (@marcomail) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554755) * But if all blogs accept Pingbacks why i should use Trackbacks to send my entry? * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554763) * Where did you get that all blogs accept pingbacks? Many don’t. More to the point, they don’t do the same thing in the first place, and they were never meant to do so. * Trackbacks are for replies. When I reply to somebody’s blog entry by making a post on my own blog, I use a trackback. * Pingbacks are simple link notification. If somebody links to one of my blog entries, I can know about it. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re replying to my entry, just that they linked to it. * Pingbacks != Trackbacks != Comments. Different things for different purposes. * Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/) * (@marcomail) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554767) * But a link or a reply is not the same thing ? You have always a mention in the other blog…do you see part of the mention/reply in the both case, or not ? Sorry for my not perfect english 🙂 * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554772) * > _But a link or a reply is not the same thing ?_ * No, they are not the same thing. * I frequently get pingbacks when people post “my favorite plugins” and include a link to one of my plugins. It’s not a direct reply, it’s content that includes a link to my page. * I would expect a trackback if somebody actually made a post that was a direct reply to one of my own posts. Like I posted something saying “Bush sucks!” and somebody else posted “Otto said Bush sucks! I agree and here’s why:”, then yeah, that’s a reply and a trackback makes sense. * > _do you see part of the mention/reply in the both case, or not ?_ * For a trackback, yes, the sending party sends a piece of their comment/post to the receiving site. * For a pingback, no, the sending party only sends the URL. The receiving site must go retrieve the content itself and get some piece of it if it wants to display it. WordPress does this, and displays a small portion of the content from the pinging site. * But there is a fundamental difference between somebody actively telling me something( via a trackback) and me going to find what they have to say (via a pingback). * As for “what you see”, well, that depends. WordPress stores all three as “comments”, but you can make it display them mixed, or separately. You can have it style them differently, you can choose not to display pings or tracks or comments or whatever you like. This is all up to the theme itself. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘automatic trackback on wordpress ?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-trackback-on-wordpress/#post-554772) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics