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August 30, 2006
trackback final info
What a pain! Findings are as follows:
To create a URL which can be used in other entries to count trackbacks, put a check in the "Accept trackback pings" box at the bottom of an entry (A) OR set your blog preference so that this function is the default. This URL CANNOT be used as the actual link back to an entry - that results in an error. Its only use is placement in the "URLs to ping" box at the bottom of an entry (B). This activates a counter in the original entry (A) and creates a link there to the entry (B) in which the URL is placed. It DOES NOT function as an actual link in the referring entry (B). There will be no indication in (B) that there is a trackback in place without further effort.
To create a link from (B) to (A) and complete the loop, you need to use some HTML code in the entry body. Specifically, remove any spaces after brackets in the following line:
< a href="url of actual blog entry in VIEW SITE format">This is the link text< /a>
For an example:
link to previous trackback testing data
The "< a href=" " comes before the URL, which is followed by " " > ", then whatever text you want to show up as the link, and finally by "< /a >". If you do this in the body of an entry, and put the URL discussed in the first paragraph in the "URLs to ping" box, you will create a cross reference between the two entries.
Posted by jnardine at August 30, 2006 11:50 AM