Title: Trackback
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trackback

 *  [non-tech-city](https://wordpress.org/support/users/non-tech-city/)
 * (@non-tech-city)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/)
 * Am I doing this wrong? If I see a trackback URL on a blog post, and I want to
   write about that post, I copy that URL into the ‘send trackbacks to’ box when
   writing a post? Or am I embaressingly wrong?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172226)
 * You need to use the ‘trackback url’, not just the post url.
 * Have a look at some posts here, and down on the right it tells you too. Feel 
   free to blitz away there 🙂
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/index.php](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/index.php)
 *  Thread Starter [non-tech-city](https://wordpress.org/support/users/non-tech-city/)
 * (@non-tech-city)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172233)
 * Yes, I get that, there’s a link that is the trackback link, that if you click
   on it goes no where. But where do I put that link? If I put that in my post then
   users will go no where. Where do I put it? I use the post URL to link in the 
   text of the post, so where does the trackback URL go?
 *  [Avenir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avenir/)
 * (@avenir)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172237)
 * For me, when I click on a the trackback URL’s for my posts, they redirect me 
   to the post itself. So I would think that all you need to do to make a trackback
   is to use the trackback URL as a link to the post in your text, and then make
   sure that WordPress is set to ping all URL’s in a post and the trackback should
   work.
 * I wouldn’t know, however, as I don’t trackback much. This is how it would seem
   to work, though.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172238)
 * When writing a post, there should be a “TrackBack a URI” field just below the
   Post text field in the “simple” edit window, or a “Send trackbacks to” field 
   in the Advanced section of the advanced edit window.
 *  Thread Starter [non-tech-city](https://wordpress.org/support/users/non-tech-city/)
 * (@non-tech-city)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172241)
 * Got it, yeah, you use the trackback URL as the link in your text. Then magically,
   a link to your site appears on the site your linking to. Cheers.
 *  Thread Starter [non-tech-city](https://wordpress.org/support/users/non-tech-city/)
 * (@non-tech-city)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172248)
 * Grrr, thought I had it, did the exact same thing in another post and it all goes
   screwy. Maybe this just isn’t for me yet…

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-1-2-3/#post-172248)
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