Title: Pingbacks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Pingbacks

 *  [marmelade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marmelade/)
 * (@marmelade)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks/)
 * I’ve never really cared about this, so I don’t know what it really does either,
   but I recently posted an entry with a link to an older entry of my blog. Then
   I got a mail that I got a pingback on my post. Anyway, the thing is that somehow
   it makes the pingback as a comment on that earlier post, and screws with the 
   layout of my site. Is there a place to fix this? The comment has the codes < 
   pre > and < code >, what is that?

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 *  Thread Starter [marmelade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marmelade/)
 * (@marmelade)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks/#post-197175)
 * Oh, I edited the comment and the layout is all fine now, but now it looks like
   another comment, not a trackback.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks/#post-197185)
 * They aren’t trackbacks, so they should appear slightly different.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks)
 *  [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks/#post-197324)
 * Turn off automaticly notify feature in options discussions. Run a test message
   with one of your permalinks in it. if it still pingsback see my message on editing
   your files so the button will work.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks/#post-197324)
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