Title: Trackback not working on comment.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trackback not working on comment.php

 *  [dremeda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dremeda/)
 * (@dremeda)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-not-working-on-commentphp/)
 * Hi, I am pretty new to all this trackback stuff but something is wrong. On all
   my comment pages the link for Trackbacks is not working. When you hover over 
   the link in the post meta data it does show the correct url in the bottom left
   of FF, but when you click it and it brings up the link in the address bar it 
   drops the /trackback/ portion from the end of the link.
 * The end result is that the trackback wont work. Now, I tested the full link with/
   trackback/ on it and it functions just fine. Does anyone have any idea why it
   is doing this and how I can fix it?
 * Your help is greatly appreciated and here is the link to one of my posts:
 * 

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-not-working-on-commentphp/#post-295957)
 * It’s functioning properly. You’re supposed to right-click and copy the link, 
   then use it (with the `/trackback/` at the end) as the trackback link. The trackback
   URI does the redirect which you describe because it is essentially a link to 
   the post with a query string command to send a trackback. So, if it is accidentally
   used as a link in the post, it will still function properly.
 * There are two things that you can do to improve the user-friendliness of this
   system.
 * 1. Add a title (tooltip) to the trackback URI. Here’s mine:
 * `<a href="<?php trackback_url() ?>" rel="trackback" title="Right-click and copy
   the TrackBack URI for this post.">
    <?php _e('TrackBack <abbr title="Uniform 
   Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>'); ?> </a>
 * 2. Use this hack to create a helpful popup window with the trackback URI displayed
   as plain text:
 * [http://guff.szub.net/2005/09/04/enhancing-trackback-links-in-wordpress/](http://guff.szub.net/2005/09/04/enhancing-trackback-links-in-wordpress/)
 *  Thread Starter [dremeda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dremeda/)
 * (@dremeda)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-not-working-on-commentphp/#post-295964)
 * macmanx: thank you for the link and I think I will venture that route, looks 
   very promising.
 * I know the right click thing works but from viewing a couple other WP sites it
   does pop up in the address bar with the full trackback link.
 * Your solution works great for me being that for my purposes anyone trying to 
   track me back will already know what they are looking for.
 * Thanks again and I think this thread is closed 😉

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 * Last reply from: [dremeda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dremeda/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-not-working-on-commentphp/#post-295964)
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