brianbonner

I am sure everyone thinks their blog is awesome. Mine is exactly what I want it to be and it is here:

http://uncooperativeblogger.com

I have gotten both pingback andd trackback to work for me in 1.5. Do you have pingbacks enabled?

There is a debug option for pingback it is line 589 in the functions.php set it to true.

For trackback debugging line 624 should look like this:
$http_request .= "rnrn";

And there is a debug option on line 630-639 it is blocked out remove the commentors and it will output a log in your admin folder. It helped me out allot.

I had the same problem. It turned out my server did not have the apache handler mod_rewrite installed. Now it works

If you have pingback enabled and the other blog can recieve a pingback then the link in the story will be enough to send an excerpt back to other blog. Other wise you can choose trackback and it will automatically link back as well. To see what is working you can link back to one of your own posts. The pingback uses the permalink. just add it in the body. If it works it will show up in the comment for the post. Then don’t put the permalink in the body and put the track back link in the track back box. The track back link is different then the permalink. By default it is the permalink with /trackback/ added on the end

This is the error messages I get, in my servers error log, when trying to track back to one of my own posts.

[Sat Apr 16 16:29:42 2005] [error] [client 205.201.15.142] File does not exist: /home/owner/public_html/404.shtml
[Sat Apr 16 16:29:42 2005] [error] [client 205.201.15.142] File does not exist: /home/owner/public_html/robots.txt

I hoped this might help somebody figure this out.

As to the problem with the track back link, don’t use it I found it confusing as well because it gives the pingback address not the track back address. in other words it takes you to the permalink. I replaced the code in my comments and popup comments to display the address in text form. here is the code from my comments.php for rss and trackback.


<p><?php comments_rss_link(__('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed for comments on this post.')); ?></p>
<?php if ( pings_open() ) : ?>
<?php _e("The <acronym title=\"Uniform Resource Identifier\">URI</acronym> to TrackBack this entry is:"); ?> <em><?php trackback_url() ?></em>
<?php endif; ?>


give it a try.

For the confusion on trackback and pingback:

pingback is the link you embed or use in your post. this will be done automatically if you have it enabled. It can also slow down your publishing if there are allot of links to check.

Trackback is the link you put in the trackback box.

Both send information back to the site you are linking too. Mine uses a brief summary.

I have gotten everything except send trackback to function.