Pingback confusion

  • Right. I feel like a looser asking this, but I never _really_ understod how pingbacks work. I’ve gotten trackback to my site, they show up as comments to my posts. Fine. But I’ve never had any pingback as far as I know. I’ve tried pinging my own posts using https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/Gemini/ and other free utilities but I never _see_ any result.

    Are pingback supposed to show up as comments too or what? I’ve read so much about it and all I’ve got is that they “Notify the other blog you have reffered to it” But how do I know if I never see if another blog has pinged me?

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    Good to see I’m not the only one with problems with pingbacks. I thought this was fixed in the Beta’s back in January? Trackbacks are working fine for me, both inbound and outbound. Outbound pingbacks to a 1.2 install work fine (haven’t tested any other outbounds), but inbound from both 1.2 and 1.5 fail. Haven’t taken the time to sniff the traffic and find out what’s going on during the exchange though. Anybody else know if this is at least a known problem or if there’s a fix available?

    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.

    For some reason it messed the code up using back ticks it should have been like this:

    “\r\n\r\n”;

    Brian, you’re doing far better than I am. The trackback log shows that all is fine, and TBs *are* being sent out — but pingbacks are not. Neither can I receive either PBs or TBs on my 1.5 blog.

    Care to share what you might have done to get everything working?

    And both of you are doing better than I. Where is this trackback log? Line 624 looks to be correct in functions.php. I removed the blocking on lines 630-639 but now can’t seem to locate this log in the Admin folder.

    As far as I know I am not receiving PBs or TBs on my very recently upgraded 1.5 blog. I tested at https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/

    The last pingback that appeared is from Feb2005 – when the blog was still 1.2.2 It is only with the recent upgrade that I could see trackback entries listed on the sidebar. They used to be included in the recent comments….

    I have trackbacks enabled and allow_url_fopen is also enabled.

    Maybe it’s superfluous info, but the fact that you’re not able to *send* ping-/trackbacks may be a firewall issue. The system relies on being able to connect to the receiving weblog over HTTP, so if your host blocks port 80 outgoing (I know mine does) you’re outta luck. That should also mean you’re unable to ping to pingomatic.com. Oh, and it means that you should be looking for another hoster, because blocking port 80 is just plain evil.

    You can check your connection skillz here.

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