Trackback to my WP2.0 doesn’t work

  • Hi,
    Someone did a trackback to a post in my newly installed WP2.0, but i don’t get any notification of this. I have a custom blog address format, and followed the instructions of what to put in the .htaccess. Everything else seems to work fine. Is there any way i can test tracking back to my own blog easily ?

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  • Excellent!
    I was wondering why I suddenly got a trackback from the TestTrack!

    podz wrote:

    The next release does ping AND send trackbacks.
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack
    has the latest code and they DO come through.

    Apparently they don’t. At least not when you do both a trackback and a pingback. When you do only the pingback comes thorough.

    It works fine if you do one or the other but not both at the same time. Unfortunately, it is still broken. 1.5, on the other hand, works just fine.

    Using the TestTrack on Tamba2, I find that the trackbacks/pingbacks get through to my blog and are registered in the “comment_count” field – but there is no record kept of the trackback in the “wp_comments” table… This is really starting to annoy me…

    For example, one post I have now says:

    “Comments (3) Trackbacks (0)”

    And then on the permalink page it says:

    “There have been 5 responses” and then lists only the three comments.

    Grrr… WordPress 2 is really something of a pain. Any ideas from anyone?

    Grrr… WordPress 2 is really something of a pain. Any ideas from anyone?

    My idea is wait until 2.0 is out of beta.

    Ahhh… Well, if the WordPress site had made it clear it was still very much in Beta then I wouldn’t have upgraded. As it is, the download page for WordPress suggests the product is “stable” and, by implication out of beta?

    https://www.ads-software.com/download/

    Perhaps they ought to make it clear that WP2 is in certain respects broken… namely the whole trackback thing.

    It is only broken if your server runs php as cgi. WP 2.0 runs just fine on my Mac and I can ping and trackback to my hearts content it is just on my web host (that runs php as cgi) where I have my problems. They are working on it as we speak. ??

    Ah…. I see. How do I test whether my server runs PHP as CGI?

    Put this in a file:
    <?php phpinfo() ?>
    and save it with a .php extension and upload it to your site and point your browser to it.

    Look under “Server API”.

    https://www.paulooi.com/2006/01/24/word-press-20-trackback-fix-revisit/

    at least i can receive trackbacks now, for sending it’s not quite yet ok but this one seems to work

    Ah – yes, am running PHP as CGI – for security reasons apparently. Any ETA on the fix?

    Looks like it is already implemented on the nightly builds but there are more issues to work around now such as if a TB and a PB are sent the TB gets suppressed with WPs flood control. It should be the other way around. It is being worked on. ??

    *edit – the powers that be disagree with me and say that pingbacks should be accepted above trackbacks.

    Doesn’t make sense to me as trackbacks are purposely included and pingbacks are simply a part of the post. When I brought it up to the mailing list I was told to “write a plugin”.

    Looks like I’m going to stick with 1.5 or look for something else.

    Sadly the paulooi.com fix doesn’t seem to do much for me… I suspect either this fixes a different problem with trackbacks – or else the other fixes i’ve made to the blog are preventing this new fix from working properly. I guess I’ll just wait until something definitive, yeah right ;-), comes out.

    Closing this thread as version 2.0 has been superceded.

    Please direct new issues to this thread:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/59117?replies=1

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