{"id":2404,"date":"2003-02-11T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=257"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:22:42","slug":"trackbacks-are-up-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/trackbacks-are-up-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Trackbacks are up &#8211; I think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/trackback\/\">trackbacks<\/a> are working now. I&#8217;m generating the necessary RDF comments so others can autodetect my trackback ping URLs, and I&#8217;m posting the URLs themselves in the left margin of each post. These links aren&#8217;t meant to be clicked, but copied by whoever is pinging manually. Unlike many existing implementations, trackbacks are equal to comments and will be posted in-line with the normal comments.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on automating part of my own pings to other sites, but it&#8217;s not a high priority thing&#8230; I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type<\/a>&#8216;s sample <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/docs\/tb-standalone.html\">standalone implementation<\/a> meanwhile.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, installing this on Mac OS X (10.2.3) isn&#8217;t completely straightforward. The trackback code uses the optional LWP Perl module, which itself needs several other modules. As I&#8217;d never messed around with Perl before, it took me some time to find the modules on <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cpan.org\/\">CPAN<\/a> and learn the necessary Terminal commands.<\/p>\n<p>I read several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/article.php?story=20010603142727786\">tips<\/a> warning about the LWP installer overwriting \/usr\/bin\/head. This didn&#8217;t happen in my case; apparently saying &#8220;no&#8221; when LWP asks if you want to install test programs skips that part.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dori.com\/\">Dori Smith<\/a> for correcting some misconceptions I initially had about trackbacks, and e-mailing me several links about the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I think trackbacks are working now. I&#8217;m generating the necessary RDF comments so others can autodetect my trackback ping URLs, and I&#8217;m posting the URLs themselves in the left margin of each post. These links aren&#8217;t meant to be clicked, but copied by whoever is pinging manually. Unlike many existing implementations, trackbacks are equal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-CM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}