I’m not convinced the bug fixes in 1.5.1.1 have fixed all the ping and track issues. I have been going round and round with a couple of sites where my trackbacks aren’t showing up and their server logs show no evidence of my machine ever contacting their trackback system. Yet it clearly is working for some sites. My current source of mystification is the trackback system at CNet’s News.com. WordPress’s failure to trackback correctly is costing me A LOT of traffic.
Does anybody know a manual way of forcing WordPress to issue pings and tracks?