Title: Pingback
Last modified: January 25, 2017

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# Pingback

 *  [xtheunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtheunderdog/)
 * (@xtheunderdog)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/)
 * So, on my domain, me and several other friends are running wordpress blogs.
    
   I was wondering if there’s a way I can set up my own pingback/update site on 
   my domain for these blogs so that you can go to that site and see which blogs
   have been most recently updated. Also, what exactly is the purpose of trackback?
   I have yet to figure that one out. And is there a difference between setting 
   one up and when you write an entry, “trackback an uri?” A few other things I’ve
   been wondering, what is “post slug,” “add a new custom field to this post” in
   the advanced view for posting.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/#post-65860)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/TrackBack](http://wiki.wordpress.org/TrackBack)
    and
   pingomatic is all you need for updating..
 *  Thread Starter [xtheunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtheunderdog/)
 * (@xtheunderdog)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/#post-65861)
 * But I only want the few journals running on my domain to be a part of this– not
   a bunch of people we don’t know.
 *  Thread Starter [xtheunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtheunderdog/)
 * (@xtheunderdog)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/#post-65913)
 * I was not aware I could put all the blogs on the same database. Plus, I’m not
   excessively familiar with MySQL and PHP, basically all I know about PHP is how
   to use it so layout changing is easier by creating a header and putting the content
   below it.
    I figured that’s what custom fields were but I wasn’t sure. Thanks
   for clarifying! As for Magpie, can I set it up to just simply put the link/name
   of the blog along with the date whenever there’s a post? That’s all I really 
   need. Would another way to do this be to just set up another wordpress and have
   all the blogs ping to it?
 *  Thread Starter [xtheunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtheunderdog/)
 * (@xtheunderdog)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/#post-66022)
 * bump

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [xtheunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtheunderdog/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-9/#post-66022)
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