Trackback hell

  • dahowlett

    (@dahowlett)


    20 years, 4 months ago

    I made a post on my site where I linked ot another site. At the other site I made a comment on the post in question. Later, when I returned to the site on which I had commented, I found a comment entry that was a good chunk of my post – like a trackback – except I DIDN’T trackback to the site. This is really weird. The other person’s site operates on WordPress.com – is there something I’m missing here? I can see the site has been pinged but I didn’t expect to see a wadge of my post elsewhere – is there any way of retricting this? It’s very bad news. I have to confess I’m failry new on this platform so is it something I need to deal with in the ping settings?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    By linking to the other blog post in your post, you sent a pingback to it. You can disable this feature by deselecting “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article” in Options/Discussion.

    Thread Starter dahowlett

    (@dahowlett)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    According to the blurb, pingbacks should not send content but that’s what happened.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    The actual ping does not send content, but as it is a form of comment (think of it as an easy trackback), the pinged blog scans the pinging entry to collect some content for a suitable comment. Again, think of it as an easy trackback. What you are seeing is normal behavior. You can disable this feature by deselecting “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article” in Options/Discussion.

    Thread Starter dahowlett

    (@dahowlett)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    Ok – having read through the documentation and your comments, it might be useful to note that the explaantion of this functionality is misleading because in this particular case, WP sent over much more text than I would have expected. In the alternative, are there settings in the php that can restrict the amount of text – like a trackback – which is sent yet retain the benefitsthat pingback provides?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    WordPress collects the entire paragraph that the link belongs to (everything withing the <p> and </p> tags which surround the link). There are certain themes which truncate this information to only display the link word and a small amount of the words surrounding it, so that can be done on the receiver’s end, but I’m not sure of how to change the core functionality to effect how the content is sent/retreived on the sender’s end.

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