Trackbacks
WordPress has this cool feature “pingbacks” whereby if I cite another blog, the software will automatically ping or send a trackback to that blog. However, if you’re not using WordPress and want to send a trackback to an entry on my blog, there’s no easily visible way to do it.
So here it is:
All you have to do is copy the permalink for the post and add /trackback/ to the end of the URL. For example, in the post below, the permalink is:
and the trackback URL is:
Simple!
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about 5 years ago
Nice new look to the blog by the way. II have been considering trying to bring my blog in more line with SCOTUSBlog and I think they use moveabletype as well-do you like it?
about 5 years ago
Thanks! I’m not using movabletype. I tried it very briefly, but it seemed that it wasn’t as flexible as wordpress. So I’m using wordpress now and I really like it.