Slow trackbacks?

  • ETERNAL

    (@eternal)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    I think I’m having a problem with my trackbacks, but I’m not entirely sure. Once in the past, I was able to do a successful trackback to another blog (it appeared instantly), but I was never able to do it again. I think I tried it again once and it eventually worked, but there are also instances where it never worked to begin with. Are there any reasons as to why this happens? I can receive tracbkacks just fine, and they seem to come in instantly, but I can never seem to give them (i.e. make the comment appear on the other person’s blog). Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Austin Matzko

    (@filosofo)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    First, I would check that your trackbacks are not simply being marked as spam.

    Second, pingbacks and the like are done on a WordPress “cron” job; if the WordPress cron isn’t working—which can happen for a number of reasons—then your trackbacks might never be sent out.

    One way to tell if cron is not working is to look in your database (using PHPMyAdmin or the like). Find the row in the wp_options table where the option_name is “cron”:

    SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'cron';

    If there’s a huge amount of text there, more than likely your cron is not working, and the cron jobs are piling up.

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