Trackback and pingback not working

It could be a problem with the execute-pings. I have found that WordPress always gives pingbacks precedence over trackbacks, which is backwards in my estimation; especially since most people link to articles (causing the pingback) and add a trackback to have their articles show up in the trackback section of the linked article.

The trackback in this case might never take hold because it would appear as a double ping to some sites and they suppress the second ping which is a trackback in this case (this is done to prevent comment spam).

You can simply replace the wp-admin\execute-pings.php file with the text below. Please back up the old file just in case you want to revert back. I encourage you to look at the structure of the replacement as it is a very simple mechanism. Once you do this both trackbacks and pingbacks SHOULD show up as expected.

THIS IS A WP 2.01 REPLACEMENT Please check the exact structure of your version before making any changes to this file. It works fine for me on 2.01. And as always BACKUP the original.

Bsically just change the order of Trackbacks to take precedence over pingbacks as demonstrated below.

<?php

require_once(‘../wp-config.php’);

// Do Trackbacks – TMT Moved Up to force Trackbacks ahead of pingbacks
$trackbacks = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(to_ping)) > 7 AND post_status != ‘draft'”);
if ( is_array($trackbacks) ) {
foreach ( $trackbacks as $trackback ) {
do_trackbacks($trackback->ID);
}
}

// Do pingbacks
while ($ping = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->posts}, {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE {$wpdb->posts}.ID = {$wpdb->postmeta}.post_id AND {$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = ‘_pingme’ LIMIT 1”)) {
$wpdb->query(“DELETE FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE post_id = {$ping->ID} AND meta_key = ‘_pingme’;”);
pingback($ping->post_content, $ping->ID);
}

// Do Enclosures
while ($enclosure = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->posts}, {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE {$wpdb->posts}.ID = {$wpdb->postmeta}.post_id AND {$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = ‘_encloseme’ LIMIT 1”)) {
$wpdb->query(“DELETE FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE post_id = {$enclosure->ID} AND meta_key = ‘_encloseme’;”);
do_enclose($enclosure->post_content, $enclosure->ID);
}

?>
`

Hmm, this is all too weird lol. I was just having problems with this the other day, did a test of one and my own trackback ended up in the “Comments For Moderation”. LoL!

Have the latest Spam Karma 2 and Akismet going. But, I could try that above code instead once..see what happens. =)

spencerp

did a test of one and my own trackback ended up in the “Comments For Moderation”

Unfortunately this change doesn’t address that issue. I have tried to suppress these to no avail although I only use akismet.

Uppdate: I turned of the author highligt plugin and suddenly I can recieve trackbacks, but I can still not send TB.

Using WordPress 2.0.2 here. Both Trackbacks and Pingbacks to the test site above worked just fine for me. Both Trackbacks and Pingbacks to my own site from the test site above also worked just fine for me. Pingbacks and Trackbacks to my own site also got through just fine.

I need help with this…

I have 2.02 and Ive reset on mysql that worked but trackbacks dont nor do pingbacks. For example. I have to manually ping pongomatic for it to ever show up at technorati…

Then I downloaded the patch, did as intruct5ed and all I got to happen was that same funky code above my header but nothing else happened so I went back to old versions of execute php and functions php so the funky code wouldnt be there. How do I get this happening?

Help…….

Thanks in advance