Can I Enable Trackback for a Standalone Page

yup, as long as you haven’t disabled them for the page.

Excellent! Thank you HandySolo.

Hi Again. Could you refer me to a demo or other site that has trackbacks used on a standalone page please?

Thanks,
Julie

if you go look at the demo install at opensourceCMS >

https://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2143

you can log in to the admin area and see that pingback and comments are set up exactly the same way for pages created in WP as they are for posts.

Thanks whooami. I’m still having trouble. I want to be able to see who has sent trackbacks to my standalone page, but when i view the standalone page, i don’t see any trackback url or place to leave a comment.

Here’s what i have tried so far.

1. Created a standalone page on the demo site and enabled comments and pingbacks Standalone page
2. Created a blog post on the demo site. Post about standalone pages
3. Sent a trackback from the blog post to the url of the standalone page.

I don’t see what you’re talking about, your links go to some other site that’s not running WordPress.

Why are you using a “demo” site? Is this site not yours?

Hi Otto42. I created the pages on OpenSourceCMS’s demo installation of WordPress. They refresh it every two hours, so my samples are dead by now… sorry for the goose chase.

I don’t currently have a WordPress site. I want to verify that it meets my needs before i create the site using WordPress.

To clarify what i want to do: Have a super-interesting standalone page on my site. Give bloggers who find it noteworthy an option to trackback to it. Have a link (ie. View Comments) from my super-interesting page to another page on my site where people can view the backtracks/comments of the bloggers.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Comments and trackbacks and everything else can be enabled on Pages as well as Posts. It largely depends on the theme being used as to whether it’s on by default or not. Most people want to disable comments on Pages, so most themes use a template that doesn’t allow or display them. But this is up to the theme designer, you can easily edit it to enable them if they’re not already.

Have a link (ie. View Comments) from my super-interesting page to another page on my site where people can view the backtracks/comments of the bloggers.

This would be trickier (comments are generally shown on the same page as the content being commented on), but it’s certainly doable. You could even be tricky and use some javascript to hide the comments until a link is clicked, whereupon they expand. This is all doable, and all dependent upon the theme design. WordPress defines a bunch of back-end functionality, the front end is largely up to the theme.