Title: Permalinks/Trackbacks..
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalinks/Trackbacks..

 *  [maya90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maya90/)
 * (@maya90)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/)
 * my posts don’t have “permalink” and “trackback” at the bottom.. [http://www.francesblog.com](http://www.francesblog.com)
   I would have thought this is standard (i.e. default..) what do I do so “permalink”
   and “trackback” appear in footer of my posts? I HAVE looked in docs, for example
   here, [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * but it doesn’t say how to include in post-footer
 * when composing post I note a “send trackbacks to” field.. do I have to fill this
   out? not sure what to put.. sorry, not quite yet how trackbacks really work..
   what about permalink? I know what that is; no option in compose-post window to
   include “permalink” at bottom of post..
 * thank you very much..

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/#post-639877)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/trackback_url](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/trackback_url)
 * Use this for a trackback link
    `<a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?>" rel="
   trackback">trackback</a>`
 * _when composing post I note a “send trackbacks to” field.. do I have to fill 
   this out?_
    Yes you need to put the link to the trackback url of the blog your
   commenting on.
 *  Thread Starter [maya90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maya90/)
 * (@maya90)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/#post-639887)
 * “the blog I’m commenting on”??? and if I’m not commenting on any other blog???
 * and what about permalinks?? Permalinks I do know what they and I want “Permalink”
   at the bottom of all my posts (this is the norm in virtually all blogs I have
   seen..) how do I do this?
 * this pg, [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks),
   starts out with:
 * There are three basic types of WordPress permalinks:
    Default: “Ugly” The default
   looks like [http://example.com/?p=N](http://example.com/?p=N)
 * this still does not tell me how I get “Permalink” at the bottom of my posts..(
   do I have to manually edit some code here to do this? I thought blog-sw generates
   permalinks for each post automatically.. if not, what do I have to do, pls.. 
   thank you..)
 * (on Trackback, if I don’t put anything in the “send trackbacks to..” field when
   composing a post then it won’t appear, is that it??) sorry, even though I have
   been a web developer for a long time (w/back-end experience too) I’m new to blogging,
   it’s just a different world, am still kind of on the ropes….;) I want to concentrate
   on how to get Permalinks at bottom of my posts for now since still don’t quite
   get trackbacks…. (yes, you can laugh if you want…;) as long as I get help here
   I don’t care…:) 🙂
 * thank you very much..
 * (PS: it’s kind of funny to me that in one of the links you post they mention 
   that trackbacks were developed by SixApart, at work we use Typepad to edit blogs(
   which is part of SixApart) and I really don’t like it.. (however: “Trackback”
   and “Permalink” appear at bottom of posts by default w/Typepad..;) I find all
   this blog-stuff fascinating, in general I think blogs are a very powerful form
   of expression, but editing them can be hard if you’re new to it..)
 * thank you very much..
    [http://www.francesblog.com](http://www.francesblog.com)
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/#post-639936)
 * _“the blog I’m commenting on”??? and if I’m not commenting on any other blog???_
 * Tracksbacks are used to allow you to write a post in your blog but have it appear
   on someone else’s blog as a comment. Most of the time when viewing someones blog
   you see a trackback link you can just add that to the trackback section of your
   write post page and then your blog post will appear in their comment sections
   for the post your referenced.
 * To get a permalink at the bottom of your post you’ll have to edit your template
   files to do that. If your theme has a single.php file then you can start there.
   This is the most basic of tags to get you started
    `<a href="<?php the_permalink();?
   >"><?php the_title(); ?></a>` This just needs to be put in the [loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop).
 * Resources:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons#Customizing_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons#Customizing_Templates)
 *  Thread Starter [maya90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maya90/)
 * (@maya90)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/#post-640002)
 * in single.php?? hmmmm…
 * here’s code for post-footer:
 * <p class=”postmetadata”>Posted in <span class=”cty”><?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?
   ></span> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <span class=”cmt”><?php
   comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></span
   ></p>
    </div></div>
 * HOWEVER: this code appears ONLY index.php (and in archive.php..), not in single.
   php..
 * (not sure what u mean by “loop”.. I know what a “for (..) {..}” loop is in programming..
   not sure what u mean by loop here, there’s no loop like that in this code that
   I can see..)
 * ———
 * at any rate, I put in index.php, and it seems to be working fine.. (example: 
   [http://francesblog.com/home/?p=8](http://francesblog.com/home/?p=8)), EXCEPT:
   link shows title of post instead of “Permalink”…. if you go to [http://www.francesblog.com](http://www.francesblog.com)
   you’ll see at footer of post:
 * Posted in cartoon of the day | No Comments » | cartoon of the day
 * instead of
 * Posted in cartoon of the day | No Comments » | Permalink..
 * thank you very much.. I do appreciate your help..
 *  Thread Starter [maya90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maya90/)
 * (@maya90)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinkstrackbacks/#post-640003)
 * ok, I got it!! gosh, that was stupid of me, I wasn’t sure it was ok to hard-code“
   Permalink” there instead of <?php the_title(); ?>….;) once again thank you very
   much..
 * now onto trackbacks.. hopefully links you posted above will tell me how to do
   that.. if not I guess I’ll post question in a new thread….
 * thanks again and have a good weekend..

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