Trackback auto-discovery
So, for whatever reason, WordPress doesn't support the industry standard RDF for trackback auto-discovery. Instead, it uses a special link tag (which it can get away with because WordPress permalinks must be on individual pages -- WordPress can't use weekly archives as post permalinks). Anyhow, all grumbling aside, Powerblogs now supports this method of trackback auto-discovery.
Posted by Chris on
Friday November 11, 2005 at 2:33am.
Also, have you considered showing trackback success when they are added after a post has been made? And do you have a mechanism in place to ensure that, if we manually trackback to a Haloscan user and the system picked it up automatically, we don't get double trackbacks?
As to trackback successes, that should happen now. On the post publishing page, in the ping section, if a trackback was issued successfully there will be a notice of it. This sometimes takes a while, though, since the software has to fetch the linked page, look for trackback information, and then send a trackback.
And yes, all successful trackbacks are logged and the code first checks the log before attempting to send another trackback, manual or automatic, so duplicate trackbacks should never be sent.
Thanks,
-Chris