Title: Slow trackbacks?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Slow trackbacks?

 *  [ETERNAL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eternal/)
 * (@eternal)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-trackbacks/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-trackbacks/#post-932468)
 * 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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 * [pingback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingback/)
 * [trackback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trackback/)

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 * Last reply from: [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-trackbacks/#post-932468)
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