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Chapter 8: TrackBack

Enabling an Entry for TrackBack Pings

Problem

You want to receive TrackBack pings for an entry.

Solution

Check the Accept TrackBacks checkbox on the New/Edit Entry screen.

Discussion

Setting up an entry to receive TrackBack pings is quite easy. Merely check Accept TrackBacks on the New/Edit Entry screen and save the entry. Assuming the entry has a status of "Publish," your entry can be pinged.

Depending on the display options you have set for the New/Edit Entry screen, this control may not be visible.

While TrackBack clients will now be able to ping the entry, they will not be able to discover the URL to ping without some hidden data in the entry's page. Make sure you've inserted the MTEntryTrackBackData tag into the template where the entry appears. The default templates that ship with MT do have this tag.

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