Title: Trackback Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trackback Problem

 *  [mattnaugle2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattnaugle2/)
 * (@mattnaugle2)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/)
 * I feel like an idiot because I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I tried to make
   a post, and “trackback” to a post on my friend’s movable type powered blog. I’ve
   used trackback before on other blog services- I love wordpress so far, but this
   won’t work. How do i fix this?
 * Is it something about trackback vs. pingback? I’ve never used a “pingback” before.
 * Thank you 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [mattnaugle2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattnaugle2/)
 * (@mattnaugle2)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/#post-151970)
 * Great! This works!!
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24576](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24576)
 *  [bestfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestfoot/)
 * (@bestfoot)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/#post-152088)
 * Maybe we are all confused as to what a trackback vs a pingback is … because we
   read the documentation 🙂
 * [http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#trackback](http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#trackback)
 * Says: For more information about Trackbacks see Trackback explained. (Which doesn’t
   exist yet.)
 * Compare that to: [http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#pingback](http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#pingback)
   
   That tells you what the thing does, but not to what effect. Perhaps it is time
   to further develop those areas a bit, especially for people just getting into
   it.
 * I have not fiddled with trackbacks much, but I am trying figure out the real 
   value of using them. Obviously you may discover some common discussion. I understand
   it may help in search optimization. But what I don’t get is why I am getting 
   slammed with trackbacks when I don’t show them on my site. I presume it must 
   be an automated process to submit them because they would otherwise realize it
   is doing them no good. They don’t have a link to my blog on their site and I 
   don’t have one to them. I do get their emails … is that the point? I am deciding
   now whether to upgrade to 1.5 or give it a week or two more for the shakeout.
   I am still running 1.2.2 on most of my sites.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/#post-152091)
 * Trackbacks vs. Pingbacks: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks)
 *  [pzriddle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pzriddle/)
 * (@pzriddle)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/#post-152495)
 * A clarification for people who are as confused as I’ve been, if I’ve got this
   right:
 * TrackBack doesn’t have to be manual. It has a well-defined method for auto-discovery
   of TrackBack URLs. However, at this time WordPress doesn’t implement TrackBack’s
   auto-discovery protocol.
 * That has led to lots of misleading statements like “PingBack is automatic while
   TrackBack is manual”: that’s true in a WordPress context but not in general.
 * At least I think that’s the case. Please correct me if I’m wrong!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [pzriddle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pzriddle/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackback-problem/#post-152495)
 * Status: not resolved

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