Hi Everybody! I love MuNuviana. And, I love Movable Type -- so much better than Blahger.
But I have a bit of a technical problem: trackbacks don't seem to be working on my blog. I've tried pinging it using Haloscan and from XRLQ's which runs on Word Press (where I'm guestsblogging this week -- ahem).
What's the deal with the trackbacks? Maybe I've messed up the code, or maybe I have to turn them on in the MT Config someplace. Does anyone have any ideas?
Posted by Cardinal Martini at December 28, 2005 10:23 PM | TrackBackTrackbacks do need to be enabled in the web configuration. Yours are, so that's not the problem.
Try pinging yourself (man, that sounds naughty doesn't it?) with the Standalone Trackback Doohicky: http://www.aylwardfamily.com/content/tbping.asp
If that works the problem is probably with those other systems.
Posted by Jim at December 28, 2005 11:10 PMAlso, our trackbacks are screened by a super-mega spam filter called Snark! Because of the way Snark! works, it could take a minute after you send the trackback for it to appear on your blog.
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 28, 2005 11:23 PMI just tried pinging myself with the standalone trackback thingamajig (not an altogether unpleasant experience). And it didn't work. Usually, there will be a response saying 0 errors or some such, but there was no response at all. I don't know what that means. Maybe the trackback addresses being generated for my posts are invalid or something. But that probably means the problem is not Snark! related, right?
Posted by Kipper at December 28, 2005 11:58 PMI've had trouble sending out pings to Typepad blogs the last few days. Anything up with that or is it Typepad being Grinchy?
Posted by Simon at December 29, 2005 08:08 AMMy trackbacks appear to be working now. I don't know what happened. Thanks for your comments, everybody =)
Posted by Kipper at December 30, 2005 11:01 AMActually, they only seem to be working when I ping myself from my own blog. Very weird. My blog still won't receive pings from other blogs. The Mu.Nu activity log doesn't register them as having failed. Very, very weird.
Posted by Kipper at December 31, 2005 12:31 AMSimon I'm having trouble with trackbacks to typepad too - I stopped by to see if I was the only one - apparently not! I've taken to using Wizbang's trackbacker... I wonder if it's typepad's extremely LOOOONNNGGG response time that's doing us in?
Even with Wizbang's form - it eventually timed out after about a minute.. althought that trackback went through.
