I’ve used a lot of blogging platforms over the last few years while I was trying to find out which ones I like best and which offer the tools and capabilities I want.
I did a lot of blogging using Blogger, which doesn’t support trackbacks, so I never really understood what they were all about.
So, this morning, I decided it was time to sort this out.
This blog is powered by WordPres version 2, and I have trackback and pingback enabled, so I should be able to point to another blog entry and the trackback should be automatic.
My first reason for trying to understand this was because I wanted to comment on Why Blog Anyway? and I wanted to see if the trackback would work.
Since I didn’t really understand how this works, I did some searching and found an outstanding WordPress Trackback Tutorial that explains much of what I was finding confusing.
I blog on several platforms, as I said, and my main blogs are powered by Userland’s Manilla, Userland’s Radio Userland, and WordPress. As far as I know, the first two do not support automatic trackback pinging, so I think I’ll have to manually enter the trackback URL in the URLs to Ping box when I create the new article.
Once I publish this article, I’ll link to it from John Dilbeck and Friends, using a manual trackback, to see if it works as expected.
I can see that I’ve been missing a powerful tool in communicating with other bloggers. I’ll rectify that today.
Hi John,
Just thought I’d pop in and thank you for the warm compliments on the WordPress trackback tutorial because it may my day :).
And if you ever have any questions, you’re always welcome to stop by and ask — I’ll do my best to answer them.
~ Teli
Thanks for the link!
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