Title: Pingbacks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Pingbacks

 *  [j3r0m3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j3r0m3/)
 * (@j3r0m3)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/)
 * Sorry, could anyone please enlighten me on pingbacks and trackbacks.
    What are
   the difference and also what are they used for? Sorry for the amatuerish questions,
   but i guess my ignorance shows. Do appreciate what ever help i get though. Thanks

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-56910)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/TrackBack](http://wiki.wordpress.org/TrackBack)
    [http://wiki.wordpress.org/Pingback](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Pingback)
   HTH 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [j3r0m3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j3r0m3/)
 * (@j3r0m3)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57104)
 * Thanks podz
    will take a look at it and then get back to you again. =)
 *  Thread Starter [j3r0m3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j3r0m3/)
 * (@j3r0m3)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57109)
 * Podz, i tried out the track back and pingback on your strappy article.
    Is that
   how its supposed to work? i could see that you have two comments by me straight
   away. My apologies for the double entry.
 *  [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57611)
 * I just got a pingback for the first time since joining WP. The codex link above
   seems to say that a pingback is a way for another person to tell me they linked
   to my post. That’s all well & good but…I still don’t understand the diff. bet.
   a trackback & a pingback. Anyone? Maybe it’s just too early in the AM for me 
   to follow the intricacies of the whole thing.
 * I understand how you create a trackback, but how do you create a pingback?
 *  [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57612)
 * To try to answer my own question…
 * Is this essentially the Discussion Options setting that controls pingbacks?
 * “# Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)“
 * If so, then pingbacks make sense to me because they’re automatic whereas trackbacks
   are manual. Am I going in the right direction?
 * Does this setting mean that my blog attempts to notify EVERY site that I link
   to including sites like the New York Times, etc. Or will it only notify other
   blog sites or what?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57613)
 * It notifies sites that you link to in your posts, not any other links.
 * Sites that do not support pings could lead to a slowing when you click Publish.
   When you publish, you automatically ping ‘Pingomatic’ and every other service
   you have in the Update Services box – which is why if you have a lot there – 
   which you do not need – you will again see slow posting.
 *  [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-1/#post-57614)
 * I have pingomatic & technorati as automatic update services pings but nothing
   else.
 * Regarding what you said about sites I link to in my posts–I link often to the
   NYT within my posts but I can’t see what good it would be to notify the site 
   that I’ve linked to them. Would this feature attempt to do that?
 * I just noticed the word “Weblogs” in the quotation above (it’s late, what can
   I say?). So I think I’ve answered my own question & it would NOT ping any sites
   except blogs, which is cool.
 * Generally, this seems like a feature I’d like activated. Is there any reason 
   not to?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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