Title: Trackback/Pingback don’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trackback/Pingback don’t work

 *  [araneo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/araneo/)
 * (@araneo)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackbackpingback-dont-work/)
 * Trackbacks and pingbacks haven’t worked at [http://www.web-ho.com/blog/](http://www.web-ho.com/blog/)
   since one of the previous upgrades (last August). I’m now running 1.2.1 and testing
   1.2.2, and in both cases neither trackbacks nor pingbacks have any effect.
    use_trackback
   and use_pingback are set to 1, which should enable them. Is there anything else?
   Something to uncomment in one of the scripts maybe?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackbackpingback-dont-work/#post-121230)
 * Do you have an xmlrpc.php file in your blog directory? If not, grab one from 
   a fresh v1.2.2 download and upload the file.
 *  Thread Starter [araneo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/araneo/)
 * (@araneo)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackbackpingback-dont-work/#post-121237)
 * There was no xmlrpc.php in the 1.2.1 installation, indeed, but that does not 
   seem to be enough. I added it from 1.2.2 but it still makes no difference (and
   anyway it was there in the 1.2.2 test installation.)
    Looking at wp_posts with
   phpMyAdmin, I can see that the trackback URL is saved in the field “to_ping” 
   of the referring post, but it does not cause any pingback or trackback to show
   up in the referred post’s comments.
 *  Thread Starter [araneo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/araneo/)
 * (@araneo)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackbackpingback-dont-work/#post-121480)
 * Update: after adding xmlrpc.php, pingbacks do work; but trackbacks still do not.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [araneo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/araneo/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackbackpingback-dont-work/#post-121480)
 * Status: not resolved

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