Pingback to dailypost.wordpress.com

What is the question, exactly? Your site doesn’t run on WordPress.com.

Thanks for getting back.

I would like to be able to get pingback with https://dailypost.wordpress.com since that is they way they interact with other bloggers.

I have searched over on forums .org and .com, and elsewhere on the net, trying to figure out why my wordpress self hosted have stopped to do pingback.

I have not been able to find the reason, so therefore I ask here.

I’m not sure what you mean by “pingback” here, or what your goal is. That isn’t what a “pingback” really is.

A “pingback” is sort of like an automatic comment. When somebody links to your content, they have the option to send you a pingback. Your blog receives that, and makes a comment showing that to have occurred.

All that you have to do to receive pingbacks is to have them enabled. This is actually the default setting in WordPress. So, unless you explicitly turned them off, then you can receive them.

As for https://dailypost.wordpress.com/, that’s a manually curated site, I believe. Not an automated one. You cannot “send” anything to them.

Thanks.

The idea with Dailypost is that you write something and then link to their prompts or weekly photo. Then you get listed on their site in their comment section because of your pingback/trackback.

Ready to write? Each Tuesday, we’ll provide a theme. Publish a new post on your blog interpreting the weekly theme. Include the pingback to this week’s challenge to share your post with the community.

More information – https://dailypost.wordpress.com/challenge-instructions/

That part is not working for my site, I do not get linked to/from their site.

DailyPost have come back to me via twitter:

1) Hello! This is a known issue we’ve managed to resolve for most, but not all, .org sites.

2) We don’t currently have a solution for prompts, but you can still participate in photo challenges via comments.

On your Settings->Discussion screen, ensure that the “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article” setting is enabled. Then your site will send pingback messages when you link to things.

Hey Samuel

Thanks I have that ticked for sure – https://random.woollypigs.com/stuff/Screenshot_photos_DiscussionsSettings.png

I’m chatting with supernovia over on .com – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom

Who is hopefully figuring out what is going on. It looks like that my site is sending out https when it is http. Never played with https.

Jetpack caused an issue with the “Subscriber emails” that it send out links in the email in https. The jetpack team came back with “I found the same problem under your site in our system (a mismatch with HTTPS) and manually corrected it, so it should be good in the emails now.”

But it still looks like pingback are send out in https. I have asked my host regarding this, though still awaits an answer.

Thanks

Well it looks like the team over on wordpress.com have hit a wall.

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom?replies=23#post-2497667

Anyone here got an idea?

Do you have SSH access to your server?

No, I haven’t needed that yet. Shall I enable it and what is your idea, because I can ask my host to do it for me.

Thanks

Pingbacks rely on a system in WordPress called wp-cron. Basically, WordPress sends the pingbacks in a background process. To do this, WordPress makes a connection back to itself.

If the server does not know its own address properly, or the DNS is borked, then it can’t make that connection. Things that will be adversely affected by this include pingbacks and scheduled posts.

Logging onto the server and attempting to ping your own domain name would find out if the DNS is incorrect. Trying to schedule a post and seeing if it actually posts on time would be another way to verify if wp-cron is working properly.

Hi

I have passed this onto my host. I have noticed that my scheduled posts have stopped working too, it have worked on and off over the years. But never knew where to look.

Thanks.