This is a very impromptu post, which does not really fit with the theme of my blog or with my posting schedule, but I wanted to share this with you all.
Pingbacks are a great thing.I discovered them pretty early on and thought I was the coolest kid on the block. Shortly after, it stopped working for me and other bloggers reported similar issues, which led me to believe it was not a problem on my end. Well… Recently, when I was doing the award post, I found myself manually reaching out to those whom I nominated (and whom I was nominated by) so they would not miss it. It was time-consuming, but most of all, it defeated the whole purpose of having the pingback function. Then, while I got some pingbacks from people whom I nominated, others were not as successful.
Today I stumbled upon a post written by one of my newbie blogging friends, which inspired me to get to the bottom of these pesky pingbacks. (You are already teaching me!) For one reason or another, I did not find WordPress’ explanations detailed enough, and I was left wondering what I was doing wrong. Thanks to Dr. Google, I was able to find TWO great posts on how to properly use pingbacks.
What is the answer to your pingback problems? Linking to a specific POST, not their site’s main address.
Of course, be sure to check the “Allow Pingback & Trackbacks” in the “Post Settings” under “More options”. Unless, you do not want to be notified of someone linking to your posts.
For more step-by-step info on this topic visit Twinbookmarks and Too Much of a Booknerd.
Thank you to all three of my teachers today. What an informative day. Woohoo!
Now you can all nominate people for awards without having to manually inform them of their nomination. You can use this also when you write a post inspired by someone else’s (blog) post, of course.
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Thank you so much for this great post. Now I know how to get around the manually reaching out for awards and I know what I did wrong the few times I did try to link (besides the daily prompt 😉):
linking to the blog itself instead of a specific post 👍
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I like to make things easier. Life is complicated enough.
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Helpful✌️
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I’m glad.
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Good post, it drove me mad till I tracked it down, and the info was ambiguous, this is clear.
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Thanks. Yes, I could not believe it that it was so hard to track down such simple explanation.
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Yes, I thought WP turned clarity into mud 🙂
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Most people link someone’s About page.
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That’s what I have read, but I have also heard some people do not have comments enabled and no pingbacks enabled. I guess if you see share buttons and comments you can assume that they do. Otherwise – no.
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Well, it can’t be helped if that’s the case.
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I just started. Please check me out
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I sure will.
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Hmmm interesting, it is time consuming that’s true. Thank you dear
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Enjoy!
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Thank you love
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That’s also one of the reasons awards are so time voracious….
By the way… WP had some bugs since the beginning of the blogging and not only about this issue… but… oh well it remains a good platform technically speaking…
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Oh, I know that there are some issues, but *knocks on wood* it’s ok for me at the moment.
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👍😄
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It was an elusive function for me forever until this last year, lol.
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Glad you figured it out!
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Heyyy, thanks for mentioning my post! It means a lot! And I’m glad you figured out the whole pingback thing haha it took me a while too XD
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It means my pingback worked. Time to celebrate!
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Thank you for sharing this! I found it very helpful!
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That’s great!
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I’m not sure do i have Pingbacks approved.I will check it later.Big applause for you !
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Thanks! And yes, check it to make sure you do.
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Diary of a Small Town Butterfly, do visit 🙂
https://annumsaeedblog.wordpress.com
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Heyy I’ve tagged you on TMI tag. You have to answer a few questions about yourself. Check it out here-
https://randomnessinked.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/too-much-information/
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Thanks for the tag.
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You’re welcome 😇
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This is interesting…
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Thanks.
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You’re welcome buddy…
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I noticed that too!
Manually reaching out to people is really stressful. Thanks for the info.
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Hope this makes things easier for you.
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This is so useful, thanks! It took me ages to work out what a pingback even was and even longer to work out how to do one. I didn’t realise that they may not work if just directed to the homepage, will definitely remember this for the future 🙂
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Glad I could be of help. I noticed a lot of people have the same issues, so it’s good to spread the word.
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🙂
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When I ususally want to link a post or a blog, I copy the link of it then paste it on “insert/edit link” the first is URL then I write the link text. AND that’s it. I don’t really know if this is the case in this post, if I’m wrong please correct me. I’m still learning these tips. Thanks 🙂
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Yes, you are doing it correctly. Your readers can click and go to that blog easily. However, if you want to notify the owner of the blog of you mentioning them, then you must link to a post. Not the general blog address. If you use the general address (main page), then they will not get alerted. But your readers will be able to click on it. Does that make sense?
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Yes yes, I understand. Thanks for explaining.
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Happy to help.
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how does it work i do not even know about this
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Many people don’t know about it. You’re not the only one. Have a read and you’ll see it has the ability to make your life easier.
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what if i am curious to know that how does this work please help @floatinggold
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Please read the post. All the answers are in there and in the links provided in the post.
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but want to know like how can you send send trackback url ( twitter’s user name) even when you are wordpess that part is confusing 😦
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Unfortunately, pingbacks only work for other blogs on WordPress. They do not work for blogs, or anything else outside of WP.com.
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but some people are sending different url othar than wp like twitter,youtube how are they doing this ???? please curious to know.
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Then they are not pingbacks. You can just paste any link inside your post, but it will not alert them. Or you can write a word/ phrase, highlight it, and then go to insert link option in the edit post window. I don’t know any other ways of pingbacks.
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Great of u to share… Really helpful
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I’m glad to hear. Thanks for stopping by.
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Thanks!
What I find elusive is the ‘roblog’ option. A, when I reblog someone else’s post, it doesn’t show up on my blog (unless I copy the entire post), B, how to allow it on my own.
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You mean that the whole post doesn’t show up, or nothing shows up at all?
Once you click “reblog”, then you are given an option to write an intro (or not), and then hit confirm and it should post. It does post only an excerpt though, with a link to the original post for people to go read.
For the B part of your question – head over to My Site- Sharing- Sharing Buttons and be sure to check the “show reblog button” and then save the changes.
While you’re there you can also add the Like button and other sharing options.
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I’ve clicked ‘reblog’ on a couple of posts and yet when I look on my site I can’t find the posts at all…
Hang on, will just try that second part.
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Any luck?
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I’m still looking and can’t see what you’re talking about….. 😦 Not sure if I’m slow, or if it’s just not there…
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https://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/
I can’t really help any more, since I’m not there to see what you’re doing/ what is not working.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Feel free to post your concerns there. Hopefully they will be able to help you out.
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Thanks!
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When I’m on sharing I see available services, enabled services and connect to facebook, twitter etc, but no ‘show reblog’ options…
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At the top of the page there is a second “tab” where you can see the reblog and like buttons.
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Yay! You fixed the title (and without fixing the slug, good, as that would have broken all the inbound links to this useful page). Kudos!
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Yay!
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