Trackbacking yourself?

  • I would like to put a question out there: When you link back to your own articles (I have > 2 years’ worth to draw from), do you Trackback to them as well?
    The way I see it, it would be a helpful way to link related posts together without adding code or cluttering up the posting area. But, it also might be a shameless self-promoting, link-whoring act.
    What do you think?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Funny you should ask because I just did that. I have my blog set to send pings out to links in posted articles, thus automatically posting trackbacks on any linked blog posts. I posted an article yesterday linking to another blog and the trackback was posted. Today, I posted an article linking to a post on my own blog and no trackback was posted. So, as far as my blog is concerned, you cannot trackback yourself. However, you may be able to if you forcibly enter your other article’s trackback URL in the trackback field. Can anyone else confirm this?

    I got self pinged or trackbacked or whatever. I linked to a post in my blog and it threw up a comment in the linked to post. I had several of them.

    I’ve done this before but this is the first time its happened. I’ve deleted them to clean up the space, but why would it happen this time? For my previous ones, the link was full (https://www…..) and for others I’ve also used relative links, but it’s hit and miss random. This time got the ping.

    So how do I stop from trackbacking myself?

    Thread Starter jdunavin

    (@jdunavin)

    When you write a post, uncheck the “Attempt to ping URLs in this entry” (or something to that effect) box below the post entry area. If you are Trackbacking some offsite URLs, put them in yourself.

    If you can’t see any of this in the posting area then turn on the advanced posting controls.

    Argh, I want to ping those listed, but I don’t see a reason to ping myself. Isn’t there a compromise?

    It works like this:

    ping yourself: https://my.site/path/to/post/
    don’t ping yourself: /path/to/post/

    If you get pinged with the latter, then something is wrong in WordPress.

    AH, that’s the trick. We need to add something about this in the codex. This is very helpful. Thanks.

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