Trackback questions

  • Hi, everyone,

    I’m very new to Word Press and am not sure if I’m seeing a bug in my recent installation or if it’s just my lack of understanding of Word Press and/0r trackbacks.

    First, I published a topic on my blog:
    https://www.e-scott.net/blog/index.php?p=7

    Then, I published a second topic in my blog in which I referenced the first (the anchor text is “christmas travel topic” in the middle of the topic):
    https://www.e-scott.net/blog/index.php?p=10

    I used, as a URI to the first topic, the trackback address that was provided on the bottom. For reference, it is:
    https://www.e-scott.net/blog/wp-trackback.php/7

    However, the trackback information did not show up in the first topic (“Christmas Travel Fun”). Instead, it showed up in an unrelated topic, “Obligatory Blog”:
    https://www.e-scott.net/blog/index.php?p=4

    So, it seems to me that Word Press is incorrectly calling my reference to article 7 a reference to article 4. Either that, or I don’t understand what the hell I’m doing.

    Thoughts?
    Scott

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  • I’m not entirely sure, but if you want to test trackbacks you can login and post and such at two blogs here:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress

    Thread Starter drummonds

    (@drummonds)

    Thanks for the offer, but I’m not sure what that would accomplish. If I saw the same behavior on your site, I still wouldn’t know if what it is doing is correct or not. If it behaved differently, the issue could be do to many more factors than I can comprehend.

    To any kind souls out there, I guess my post boils down to the following question: why would a trackback from article ‘B’ to article ‘A’ show up in article ‘C”s trackback list? Article C’s trackback URI is listed nowhere in article B.

    Scott

    A suggestion: trackbacks are generally made to external sites & not one’s own. I’ve never done this myself & I suppose it could be done. But I have a much better solution: try installing the In-Series plugin. It does precisely what you want. If you have a series of posts on the same subject you can create a “series” in which every post in the series would be linked to every other one. It’s really cool & you don’t have to do all the linking manually or even by trackback as you’ve done.

    https://www.skippy.net/

    Look for In-Series under Skippy’s Plugin blog category.

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