Trackbacks, what should happen cos i just get the same page reloading

That’s what’s supposed to happen. You don’t visit your trackback URLs. It’s only for use on other blogs to ping back to your blog with.

so if i want to trackback a wp post, what are the steps please and thanks

Use the URL you had been clicking. If the blog you want to send a trackback to has permalinks on, it will be https://site.com/permalink/trackback/.

Take that URL and drop it in the trackback box on the write post page.

I talked briefly about it here https://archshrk.com/2005/11/trackback-for-beginners/
the track back for that post is https://archshrk.com/2005/11/trackback-for-beginners/trackback/
I would be very careful about using trackbacks. Just using a regular link in WP is usually enough.

@archshrk,
that’s only one side of the story. I mean soon there will be opinions here saying that pinging is totally un-necessary, trackbacking is enough ??
(I am not taking sides here!)
Just a regular link in WP might be enough if you checked in Options > Discussion > the “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)” box.
I have it always unchecked…

Hi all thanks for the interest. I used haloscan on blogger and was expecting something similar.. WP seems to assume all its users are a bit more techie minded and it’s just intuitive, anyways I found this link all by myself and it fits what I want and may help anyone who looks this up in future..
https://guff.szub.net/2005/09/04/enhancing-trackback-links-in-wordpress/

here’s an afterthought, how difficult would it be to add an ALT tag to the trackback link ?