[geeklog-devtalk] Trackbacks

[Dirk Haun]

Michael Jervis wrote:


>Surely I don't have to put "http://geeklog.info/trackback.php/neue-features"

>into the article? That link is no use to the users.


Both trackback and pingback are supposed to work like this: You see a
post on someone else's site, e.g. <http://geeklog.info/trackback.php/
neue-features>. Now you go and write a post on your own site where you
comment on it. E.g. something like

"The new features that will go into Geeklog 1.3.12 can now be previewed
on geeklog.info. See <a href="http://geeklog.info/trackback.php/neue-
features">this article</a> for details."

After saving that post, you can then click on the "Ping" link in the list
of stories (last column - update your admin/story templates if you don't
have it) which takes you to a form from which you can send trackbacks,
pingbacks and pings for your post.

A pingback will scan your post for links, check all those sites if they
accept pingbacks and send them automatically.

A trackback can only be sent to one site, so it presents you with a list
of all the links in your post. Select the one to send the trackback to
and it will check if that page accepts trackbacks. You should then get
the trackback comment form with the proper trackback URL already filled
in (or an error message, if it couldn't find a trackback link).

A ping (to blo.gs, etc.) is sent automatically to all the enabled ping
sites (weblog directories). This will only tell them that you wrote a new
post on your site, so it doesn't have anything to do with the links in
your post.

Does that make things clearer? I intend to add something to the
documentation on all this, but haven't had the time.

I'm also open for suggestion on how to make things easier to use.
However, consider that the site receiving the trackback / pingback / ping
will only accept it when your post has already been published (so adding
a trackback link in the story editor won't help).

If you want to send all three, do it in the order suggested on the "ping"
form, i.e. send the trackback last.

Oh, and it should be compatible with pretty much any other weblog
software that accepts pingbacks and/or trackbacks.

bye, Dirk

P.S. I see you've managed to send a trackback now :-) The link back,
however, causes this: 

Template Error: set_root: /home/httpd/vhosts/fuckingbrit.com/httpdocs/
layout/BritGoth/trackback is not a directory.
Halted.

Update your theme ;-)


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