Comments on: Wordpress guru urgently required

By: Ashley Morgan

Ashley Morgan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:43:09 +0000

Amber - I tried copying the original comment code from the Sandbox theme but it didn’t make any difference.

Joshua - AN Hosting haven’t disabled the PHP functions, I put up a couple of test blogs with default themes and they happily pinged and trackbacked from a range of different blogs.

Curtis - I’m just going to check that right now. Hopefully I’ll find something in there.

The thing I can’t get my head around is that something is stopping the blog from sending out notification to other blogs whilst at the same time recording the number of incoming pings but not quoting them. It’s all very strange.

By: Curtis Earl

Curtis Earl — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:19:01 +0000

just to cover all basis, are you having any weird errors in your log? i know that wordpress generates its own error log, but you wanna check your error logs in cpanel.

plugin conflicts, maybe.

By: Joshua Goodwin

Joshua Goodwin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:06:13 +0000

Turning off the CSS doesn’t appear to make it work.

This could be something to do with AN Hosting — they may have disabled the PHP functions required for trackbacks and pingbacks to work.

And also, only if the other blog concerned is too another WP-powered blog will the connection be made. It’s probably a good idea to paste the “Trackback URL” into the special box on the “write new post” page. Talking of those, you should probably display the trackback URL in the comments section:

< ?php trackback_url(); ?>

Do the trackbacks display if you change the site’s theme? It currently says “One Trackback” here, but doesn’t actually display the trackbacks themselves.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:53:10 +0000

I forgot to mention maybe it’s a CSS issue.

You might check your CSS to see if you have the comments class as visible. It might just not be showing up due to some miscue in your CSS.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:51:35 +0000

Maybe you could copy the elements of the comments.php file from the default wordpress theme that you need into your file and keep a copy of your current comments.php to compare the differences.

If the modified version of your comments.php shows the trackbacks/pingbacks, then you know it’s a problem with your current configuration.

(I don’t use trackbacks, so I don’t know if that would be much help…but I use it when I’m figuring out issues on my own blog.)

Also, do you have like a ‘testing’ blog? If there are trackbacks there, you could try the above suggestion on that testing site and see if it works before you go and make it live.