Title: Problems receiving  pingbacks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems receiving pingbacks

 *  Resolved [zztop12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zztop12345/)
 * (@zztop12345)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-receiving-pingbacks/)
 * Hello,
 * I am unable to receive pingbacks on my blog. I can receive trackbacks and I can
   also post to my my blog using a weblog client. So xml_rpc works though pingbacks
   use http post. I can also send pingbacks to other blogs.
 * From the xmlrpc.log I can see my blog receiving the pingbacks. I can also see
   the pingback being POSTed to xmlrpc.php in my access log. The only thing that
   doesn’t seem to happen is wp-cron doesn’t run after receiving the pingback.
 * I know wp-cron works because I’ve scheduled posts in the past as well it runs
   for my trackbacks and for the weblog posting.
 * I’ve also checked my database to make sure the data wasn’t being saved and just
   not published. I’ve disabled all the plugins and reverted to the default theme
   without success.
 * I’m hosting the blog on my own server. I’ve checked /etc/host settings and everything
   is fine. I’ve completely open the firewall without success. I checked and there
   aren’t any security modules loaded in apache. I read somewhere that xmlrpc.php
   requires curl support which my php didn’t have. I updated php to include curl
   support. Pingbacks still don’t work.
 * I’ve run out of ideas at this point. Any insight would be appreciated.
 * Regards,

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 *  Thread Starter [zztop12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zztop12345/)
 * (@zztop12345)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-receiving-pingbacks/#post-1004228)
 * anyone have any insight on this?
 *  Thread Starter [zztop12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zztop12345/)
 * (@zztop12345)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-receiving-pingbacks/#post-1004246)
 * I’m getting the following xmlrpc response “Is there no link to us?”
 *  Thread Starter [zztop12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zztop12345/)
 * (@zztop12345)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-receiving-pingbacks/#post-1004278)
 * For anyone else out there I resolved this issue. I always had xml-rpc protocol
   enabled but I never enabled had Atom publishing enabled. Once I enabled Atom 
   I was able to receive pingbacks. During this entire issue I never found any documentation
   suggesting you need to enable atom publishing. Can anyone point in the direction
   of some ?

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-receiving-pingbacks/#post-1004278)
 * Status: resolved

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