Trackback Help

Okay, it looks like I want to use the following:

'Trackback URL for this post: <?php trackback_url(); ?>'


The question is where do I put this?

I am no guru at this but I think you put that where you want the TB url to show. On my site I have this:
“>Trackback URL
on my main page.

You can also have it show on the comment page. Where ever you want a trackback url to show.

I know if this is wrong one of the gurus will straighten it out but I am pretty sure it is accurate.

I am not certain what the “main page” is. If I add the above code to comments.php, will that be enough?

Anyone know?

you can add the code anywhere you want to appear i.e. on your sidebar or comments area.

1. If you want TB to appear in sidebar, just add the code in your sidebar.php(if you have one) or index.php. The point is the main template file, where all your category, links, calendar etc. code are.

2. To have TB in your comments area just enter the code inside loop in your comments.php

You can also put it in the loop (in index.php of your theme) and have it appear at the bottom of each post. It all depends on where you want it.

Look in comments.php for the first line here, then add the missing bits:

<?php else : // If there are no comments yet ?>
<a href="<?php trackback_url() ?>" rel="trackback"><?php _e('TrackBack <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>'); ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php _e('No comments yet.'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Is one place.
(Edited – my first response was daft)

I am still struggling with this. I looked at the Classic theme that is included with WP. I copied from comments.php the following:


<?php comments_rss_link(__('RSS feed for comments on this post.')); ?>
<?php if ( pings_open() ) : ?>
" rel="trackback"><?php _e('TrackBack URI'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I placed this in the same spot of comments.php of the Impact theme. When I look at a specific post all appears correct. I now have an RSS feed for the comments of the post and a link to the trackback URI.

I then used the trackback URI on a post I have on a test site I have. My expectation was that the a snippet of that test post would display in the comments of the post of my regular site. My test site indicated I had successfully pinged the real site. Yet, nothing seemed to happen. Nothing was added to the comments.

I looked through index.php of the Classic theme and saw nothing about trackbacks to add to Impact’s index.php.

What am I missing?

hello, i am having another trackback problem. in the past when i went to a trackback page in a browser it automatically forwarded me back to the article page, but now instead of doing that it just comes up with a:
———————
200 OK
The document has moved here.
———————
why is this occuring and how can i fix it. also upgrading wordpress 2.0 -> 2.02 never solved the problem. please let me know how to fix this. my webpage is here
https://www.skattertech.com/2006/04/ipod-update-available/
use that as an example and press on the trackback to see what happens.