Title: Serious Trackback Problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Serious Trackback Problem * [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/) * Hello Folks, * I’m just starting [http://www.clevelandtownhall.com](http://www.clevelandtownhall.com) and the trackbacks don’t work. I activited them under the options settings. * So I tried to add a section which would display the track back url, and I tried that trackback on another site and it gave errors. What am I doing wrong? * thank you 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 34 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193509) * Are you having trouble sending trackbacks, or receiving trackbacks? And, are you a DreamHost customer? * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193512) * I own an account with them, but my site isn’t hosted there. Why do you ask? * I’m having problems receiving trackbacks, as the trackback url link didnt initially show up. I added the code to show the track back link, but that link doesn’t work. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193516) * > I own an account with them, but my site isn’t hosted there. Why do you ask? * Because of this: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31828](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31828) * > I’m having problems receiving trackbacks, as the trackback url link didnt initially > show up. I added the code to show the track back link, but that link doesn’t > work. * The post’s link (permalink) is the trackback URL. * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193523) * Nope that also doesn’t work * Am I doing something wrong? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193525) * Try testing by sending a trackback from this test blog: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/) * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193533) * ah! very nice- the trackback link works! * I wonder why it wasn’t working from a seperate b2evo blog. but yeah- many thanks! * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193535) * More than likely, the b2evo blog is having trouble sending trackbacks. Try sending a trackback to the test blog from the b2evo blog. * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193540) * Nope! it didnt work * what was happening in b2evo was- since there is a transition page showing you the progress of pings, it would show me the entire html- graphics and all- of my wordpress site. very strange * is there a site to test SENDING trackbacks? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193542) * Yep, send one to any of the posts on the test blog. The post links (permalinks) are the trackback URLs. * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193547) * Nope that doesn’t work * Looks like I can’t send tracbacks * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193549) * Sounds like a problem for the b2evo support forums: [http://forums.b2evolution.net/](http://forums.b2evolution.net/) * Thread Starter [jeffsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffsmith/) * (@jeffsmith) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193550) * I also tried to send a trackback to a post on [http://www.clevelandtownhall.com](http://www.clevelandtownhall.com) using this service: * [http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/](http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/) * And it doesn’t work- I think I’m still having trouble accepting trackbacks. * [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/) * (@dianev) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193565) * In case anyone missed it, Matt has commented about fopen being required on servers in order for “several important parts” of WordPress to work — see [DreamHost and Receiving Pingbacks](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31828#post-179912). * I’d like to know, too, what “important parts” those might be as it might help some of us to debug our server setups. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193566) * Is this DH action in response to anything MT-related that has caught WP in the crossfire ? * [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/) * (@dianev) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/#post-193824) * Since this is one of the ongoing TB/PB threads, I’ll note my small debugging progress here. * First, I’ve checked with my upline host (Verio) and verified that fopen (a function or feature of PHP) is running on the server. * Secondly, I note this entry in my server error log: * `PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in /wp/xmlrpc.php on line 767` which does not make sense, as line 767 says: `$struct['htmlUrl'] = wp_specialchars( get_category_link($cat['cat_ID']);` * Might the problem be somewhere else in that file? xmlrpc.php seems to be the only file containing the fopen command. I’m no PHP expert, but I’ll see what I can track down in this regard, especially as neither of my 1.2 blogs seem to be sending out trackbacks. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 34 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Serious Trackback Problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [trackback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trackback/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 34 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [baptiste](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baptiste/) * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-trackback-problem/page/3/#post-194238) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics