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Trackback This

June 18, 2008

Good Morning scribkin readership!

If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you. I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use.

Next time you post, please include a link to this article (no need to link to anything other than the standard article URL) and we will see if the Disqus trackback feature works as advertised.

Thanks!

Disqus Now Includes Trackbacks with Commenting System

PS – Shey Smith is doing something similar on his blog.

PPS – According to this article I am not doing the trackback correctly. Trying again.

Tagged with: disqus, status, trackback

Categorised as: Followup, Statistics, Status

http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

Ok, I give up. I changed the trackback URL on this article, and now I'm not getting ANY trackbacks! Argh.
http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

Phil, I had the same issue as well : http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/.....dis…

I'll try and ping your post
http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/06/17/testing-disqus-trackbacks-vs-wordpress-trackbacks/ Testing Disqus Trackbacks vs WordPress Trackbacks | introspective snapshots

[...] http://www.scribkin.com/2008/06/18/trackback-this/ [...]
http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

Well, it looks like your site pinged mine just fine — but either ignored the custom trackback URL or Disqus hasn't registered it yet, because, as you can see below, only recorded in one place.
http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

Now will try to ping your Disqus trackback URL: http://scribkin.disqus.com/tra.....ack…
http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

Ok, go for it.
http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

nothing
kenmat

I just tried it on new-blogger ( http://suwaowa.blogspot.com/20.....bac… ),
and on wordpress.com ( http://linklink.wordpress.com/.....tra… ).
Both FAILed
http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

Yeah.. I am periodically checking my comment logs to see if the ping shows up.. nothing yet.
http://obscurelyfamous.com Daniel Ha

Are you sure you're using trackbacks and not pingbacks?
kenmat

Hi, Daniel! I'm sorry I'm not good at using trackbacks actually. Could you please tell me the difference between trackbacks and pingbacks? Thanks!
http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

Nope.. not sure.

However, according to the link below, I guess what we are doing is
pingbacks. I will update my post with a full trackback.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/ping/
http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

The server at tamba2 (see link in my other comment) helpfully allows people to test trackbacks and pingbacks from their demo WP install. I sent a few out from this link, and I also used one of my articles to send that article a trackback to their trackback URL. My trackback to them was logged successfully, their trackbacks to two of my articles either failed or did not show up in Disqus.
http://obscurelyfamous.com Daniel Ha

Thanks for the info. We're still working out the issue.
http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

I was trying to send trackbacks to Disqus from my site & it was failing (WordPress, self hosted), but when I captured the post request that was being sent by my site & pasted that into Fiddler & recreated the request it worked fine. Now that was truly odd
http://obscurelyfamous.com Daniel Ha

Are you sure you're using trackbacks and not pingbacks?
kenmat

Hi, Daniel! I'm sorry I'm not good at using trackbacks actually. Could you please tell me the difference between trackbacks and pingbacks? Thanks!
http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

Nope.. not sure.

However, according to the link below, I guess what we are doing is
pingbacks. I will update my post with a full trackback.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/ping/
http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

The server at tamba2 (see link in my other comment) helpfully allows people to test trackbacks and pingbacks from their demo WP install. I sent a few out from this link, and I also used one of my articles to send that article a trackback to their trackback URL. My trackback to them was logged successfully, their trackbacks to two of my articles either failed or did not show up in Disqus.
http://obscurelyfamous.com Daniel Ha

Thanks for the info. We're still working out the issue.
http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

I was trying to send trackbacks to Disqus from my site & it was failing (WordPress, self hosted), but when I captured the post request that was being sent by my site & pasted that into Fiddler & recreated the request it worked fine. Now that was truly odd