Accept category pings
When you turn on a category's ability to accept TrackBack pings, the system sets up a TrackBack item for this category so that remote sites will be able to send pings to your site, notifying you of new entries that fit within the category. These pings can then be displayed on your site, allowing you to build a repository of links relating to a particular subject.
After clicking the "On" checkbox, save the changes, and the system will give you the TrackBack URL that other users can use to ping your category.
You can password protect this TrackBack URL to allow selective access.
Category description
This field allows you to specify a description of a category. This description can then be displayed on your weblog through use of the MTCategoryDescription tag.
Category label
This is the category name that is displayed on the published weblog using either the MTCategoryLabel, MTArchiveTitle or MTEntryCategory tags depending on the context at hand.
You should choose the label carefully because it is used in the URLs of your category archive. Changing the category name after publishing entries assigned to that category will break incoming links.
TrackBack passphrase protection
If you have enabled TrackBack pings to a particular category, you can selectively allow access to that functionality by setting a passphrase for the category. Users who wish to send pings to your TrackBack-enabled category will need to know the passphrase in order to ping you.
This is a good way to enable "private" TrackBack items; even if someone can guess the TrackBack ID, he will not be able to send a ping unless he knows the passphrase.
This is optional. If you do not set a passphrase, everyone will be able to ping you without providing a passphrase.
URLs to ping
This field enables you to associate a list of TrackBack URLs with a category. When you post a new entry into this category on your own site, each of the URLs you have listed will be pinged with information about this new entry.
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