Trackback UI
Dave Winer: Question for MT experts. I want to send a Trackback message to Mitch's weblog referencing this post. I know how to do it with a script, but how do I do it through MT's user interface?
In MT 2.5, on the HTML page where one enter weblog titles, entries, and excerpts, there is a simple textarea for URLs to Ping, thus:
<textarea class="short310" name="to_ping_urls" rows="3" wrap="virtual"></textarea>
In my case, the user interface is Radio. During my publishing process, I run a script which parses the entry for hrefs and automatically issues any pingbacks or trackbacks.
Thanks for the pointer. I was surprised that there wasn't a pref I could set to do this automatically. It seemed that's why the RDF was present in the HTML of the generated page, kind of like what Mark Pilgrim is doing with citations. It's okay that it's manual, I guess that has some advantages too. You should know when your stuff is appearing in a list somewhere?
Posted by Dave Winer at
I believe you are talking about Trackback auto-discovery. Blog Config --> Preferences --> Turn on Trackback auto-discovery. There's a little link next to the option to explain what it is; see if that's what you're talking about.
Posted by Mark at
And if you're referring to posting and then pinging another weblog, check that you are using the "Advanced" or "Customized" Entry interface. (Go to the bottom of the entry screen and click '[Customize the display of this page]'.) Also try the "bookmarklets" interface which will attempt to prefill tne entry when used including TrackBack pinging info.
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