Title: Trackback issue
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trackback issue

 *  [cass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cass/)
 * (@cass)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/)
 * OK, first let me preface this with that fact that I am *not* a programmer, I 
   know nothing about coding.
    Nevertheless I installed WP and customized the CSS
   and even upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5 (Yeah me!)
 * I have been reading the posts here about a bug in the trackback thingey. I went
   into to make the change as discussed on the bug report about substituting line
   635. Problem is, line 635 is not anything like what the bug report says it should
   be.
 * I am using NoteTab Pro to get the line numbers in the file. I also searched for
   the error and it doesn’t find anything.
 * What am I doing wrong?

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 *  Thread Starter [cass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cass/)
 * (@cass)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/#post-163223)
 * It looks like it already is fixed…anyone who knows anything about this…..please
   chime in……..
 * // Send a Trackback
    function trackback($trackback_url, $title, $excerpt, $ID){
   global $wpdb; $title = urlencode($title); $excerpt = urlencode($excerpt); $blog_name
   = urlencode(get_settings(‘blogname’)); $tb_url = $trackback_url; $url = urlencode(
   get_permalink($ID)); $query_string = “title=$title&url=$url&blog_name=$blog_name&
   excerpt=$excerpt”; $trackback_url = parse_url($trackback_url); $http_request 
   = ‘POST ‘ . $trackback_url[‘path’] . ($trackback_url[‘query’] ? ‘?’.$trackback_url[‘
   query’] : ”) . ” HTTP/1.0\r\n”; $http_request .= ‘Host: ‘.$trackback_url[‘host’].”\
   r\n”; $http_request .= ‘Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset
   =’.get_settings(‘blog_charset’).”\r\n”; $http_request .= ‘Content-Length: ‘.strlen(
   $query_string).”\r\n”; $http_request .= “User-Agent: WordPress/” . get_settings(‘
   version’); $http_request .= “\r\n\r\n”; $http_request .= $query_string; if ( ”
   == $trackback_url[‘port’] ) $trackback_url[‘port’] = 80; $fs = @fsockopen($trackback_url[‘
   host’], $trackback_url[‘port’], $errno, $errstr, 4);
 *  [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/#post-163228)
 * well, do trackbacks work for you? you can test them out here:
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/index.php](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/index.php)
 *  Thread Starter [cass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cass/)
 * (@cass)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/#post-163238)
 * Sometimes they work for me.
 *  [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/#post-163322)
 * I use notetab pro also. One thing you need to make sure to do is under ‘document’
   menu item at the top of the screen pull down and turn ‘word wrap’ off. If word
   wrap is on the line numbers won’t match up.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-issue/#post-163322)
 * Status: not resolved

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