Trackbackability
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Unless I’ve mucked something up, TrackBacks should be a happening thing here from now on. Long overdue, I know.
I wanted to avoid any pop-up windows so it was a matter of getting things working within the individual archive pages. Trouble is, the pages aren’t rebuilt automatically when they’re pung. This page on the MT support board explains the problem. Luckily, there is Phil Ringnalda (Phil, if you ever read this know that I’d like to buy you a drink one day). He figured out a way to hack lib/MT/App/Trackback.pm so that it rebuilds the individual archive pages whenever a ping is sent.
While this seems to be working fine locally, it remains to be seen whether it’s practical in the real world. Fingers crossed.
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2003.01.19 (Sun) • 22:46
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Posted by Ryan Carter 2003.01.20, 00:30
'pung' Jeremy? you do mean 'pinged' don't you… pung sounds like pong – and your site certainly doesn't smell that way to me =)
Posted by jh 2003.01.20, 00:44
Oh, I know it's "pinged," but "pung" seems too good not to use. We ought to find a use for it somewhere.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2003.01.20, 01:29
I don't know. If the past of "sing" is "sung", shouldn't the past of "ping" be "pung"? After all "singed" is the past of "singe" not "sing".
Glad you got trackback working. Leave it to you to uncover new issues. I'd always wondered why the default trackback wasn't on the individual archive pages, where, in my case, they'd do the most good. Thanks for pointers to the solution.
Posted by Ryan Carter 2003.01.20, 02:27
a-ha… just half-jokingly checking if that was what you intended… I can be a stickler like that sometimes
Posted by Jesper 2003.01.20, 03:49
"pung" is the swedish word for a man's balls. But then again, "prick" means "dot" in swedish.
Yes, I'm swedish.
Posted by Erik J. Barzeski 2003.01.20, 05:40
Seems there's somewhat of an issue there - it's got two of my articles listed one minute apart… I re-edited the post to add the Canadian (non-)joke. Hmm.
Posted by victor 2003.01.20, 07:25
Hey, great idea listing them at the right column! I now realize why I am a software guy and not a designer one, I haven't thought of this :) I'll be sure to trackback you as soon as I post something on topic.
BTW, I didn't know pages weren't rebuilt automagically, I believed they got rebuilt as if a comment was posted. I'll have to look into that…
Posted by jh 2003.01.20, 10:50
Jesper – LOL! You see – It is too good a word to waste!
M – Maybe we have to content ourselves with using it as the past participle. We can always work our way back up the verb chain from there.
Oh, and I don't think I uncovered anything – except to remind myself that the MT support board is a wonderful resource that I often overlook when faced with a problem.
Eric – I pinged the article by Phil Ringnalda that I refer to and did it twice, too. Here's why: I manually pasted the ping URL into the "URLs to Ping" field in the editing screen forgetting that I had turned on "TrackBack auto-discovery" in the blog configuration preferences. So two pings got sent rather than one. Auto-discovery seems pretty neat – I just have to remember that it basically supersedes manual pinging.
Victor – It could be better. Once again I painted myself into a corner. I wanted to include the URL to ping in the right-hand column, too, but of course the URL doesn't break across lines and ends up sticking out into the background space. That's why it ended up below the article.
Posted by Kris 2003.01.20, 17:33
Jeremy. you may want to make the dropdown menu work in a non-javascript environment too.
<noscript>
<input type="submit" … />
</noscript>
Posted by jh 2003.01.20, 22:53
Kris – I probably should … but I'm not sure how to. The menu items are just URLs and don't get acted upon without the jump-menu script.
Certainly no excuse for not having at least some word of explanation between <noscript> tags though.
Posted by Jesper 2003.01.21, 17:08
jh: Damn straight. Swedish rocks :P
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