How to add dummy trackbacks and pingbacks to a test site

  • Resolved Donal

    (@donalmacarthur)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    When I’m building a WordPress theme and styling the comments section I can easily add dummy comments to my test site to make sure they’re displaying the way I want them to. Is there any similar way to add dummy pingbacks and trackbacks to posts on a test site to make sure they’re displaying properly?

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  • Trackbacks should be easy. Just create a new post and add a link that leads back to your other post. WordPress should pick up that link as a trackback (though, I think you might have to have your site setup to be available to search engines [Settings -> Privacy] for that to work).

    Thread Starter Donal

    (@donalmacarthur)

    Thanks Curtiss – I’ll try that now.

    Or use the Theme_Unit_Test

    Thread Starter Donal

    (@donalmacarthur)

    Worked perfectly ??

    You’re right – I had to set my test site to public for it to work. I also had to enable the ‘Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article’ setting on the [Settings -> Discussion] page.

    Much appreciated Curtiss. That helped me out a lot ??

    Thread Starter Donal

    (@donalmacarthur)

    Thanks esmi. I’ll download the test data and give it a try too.

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