Trackbacks Are Broken
I have no idea why - I really am not a software kind of guy. The trackbacks do not work for legitimate bloggers, but spammers seem to be able to get through - though the spam blockers catch them. I will likely be swapping a few things around, so the Crabitat may change and change again for a while until I get all this hashed out.
But the content will continue, regardless how the appearance may vary.
UPDATE: It may have been the anti-spam image. I have turned it off and have been able to get a test trackback in - I'd appreciate all the folks who have tried to try it again. You guys are great for helping me get this debugged.
Geek Stuff | Gaius Wednesday, 17 October , 2007
By Jack, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:23 pm
I dig the new look.
Though maybe the problem with the trackbacks is the way your site sets permissions.
By Americaneocon, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:35 pm
Well, I’m glad you noticed. I tried to trackback the other day.
I loved - loved - the color on the old blog, by the way, but change is good.
Keep on truckin’.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:36 pm
I just tried a trackback, but it apparently was squashed at the palace gates.
By Gaius, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:37 pm
If you could elaborate on that, Jack, I’d appreciate it. Here or by email.
By Quilly Mammoth, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:57 pm
Most trackbacks look to go through the comment section. Yours is…uhmmm…hard to deal with :))!
By Gaius, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:58 pm
Let me try something.
By Gaius, Wednesday, 17 October , 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Give it another try, please.
By Jack, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 7:52 pm
“If you could elaborate on that, Jack, I’d appreciate it. Here or by email.”
Don’t know if this will help or not but some systems use a permissions system set by the administrator (you) that declares specific things about who can respond, trackbacks, spam responses, word filters, etc.
Check the details of how your site is set up and how the server and administrator permissions are arranged. It could be that you can fix it by finding the right setting, command, or set of permissions.
And this is just a deduction based upon the new look of the blog. The reason I make that deduction is that this may simply be a different template, but if whoever is serving your blog attached performance enhancements or upgrades to your new template because they also upgraded all or even just some of their new templates then you may have additional commands or procedures to follow or permissions to set that didn’t occur with some of your other prior templates. For instance I noticed this thread has a comment posting closing date. I could be wrong but I don’t recall that with your previous template.
In other words look for any new or different group of settings that may be attached to this template that were not attached to prior templates. Look for something you may have not seen in the past with your controls.
And there you go. If you find some then figure out what they do and finagle with me awhile til you get it set the way you want.
By Jack, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 7:54 pm
“If you find some then figure out what they do and finagle with me awhile til you get it set the way you want.”
That should have been “finagle with em.”
I hate Microsoft.
By Jack, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 7:57 pm
By the way, the first close date for comments on this thread was Oct. 31.
After I made my second comment it flipped one day to Nov. 1.
I’ll bet if someone comemnts tomorrow it will be Nov. 2.
Meaning you got at least one floating command, that is provisonal upon response rates.
That’s a clue.
By Gaius, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 8:01 pm
The expiry for comments is a new WordPress plugin so I can keep the spammers at bay a bit easier. So that isn’t up in the file system. Part of the problem (not all) was fixed by pulling off the plugin that gave an anti-spam image. That had issues with trackbacks. But I’ll check file permissions and see if something looks weird, thanks for the tip.
I know that one file permission screwup killed my email for a bit, so it is quite possible there are others. That actually did not have anything to do with WordPress directly but with a restore the hosting company did.
By Gaius, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 8:05 pm
Thanks for pointing that last one out. That is a properly functioning part of the plugin - but I had it set wrong. Got that fixed now.
Good attention to detail, man.
By Jack, Friday, 19 October , 2007 @ 8:00 am
“Good attention to detail, man.”
It’s what I do.
Glad to have helped if I did, and glad you got it ironed out.