I saw some questions recently wondering whether someone’s WordPress 1.5.1 blog was successfully handling trackbacks, pingbacks, and update pings.
To answer this question, I’ve developed a new RedAlt tool, Pingomation. Pingomation and it’s subsidiary tools allow you to:
- Retrieve the time when your blog last pinged Ping-o-Matic.
- Test incoming and outgoing trackbacks.
- Test incoming and outgoing pingbacks.
To test outgoing trackbacks, just put the url “http://redalt.com/ping” in your trackback box on any post. Then visit the Pingomation site and submit your URL to see if it came through.
To test outgoing pingbacks, create a link to “http://redalt.com/ping” in your post content and save it with your pingback option turned on. Then visit the Pingomation site and submit your URL to see if it came through.
To test incoming trackbacks/pingbacks, visit the Pingomation site and click one of the links at the bottom of the page to test the appropriate ping. You will need to submit a valid URL (either the trackback URL or a post URL, depending on what you’re testing) if you expect anything to work. RedAlt will send the requested trackback/pingback with a short message. Although sometimes the pingback messages get truncated by WordPress, the link back to RedAlt should confirm that things are OK.
Hopefully this will dampen the scourge of “Does my pingback/trackback work?”
