Title: Pingback to dailypost.wordpress.com Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Pingback to dailypost.wordpress.com * Resolved [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/) * Hi * Yes this is yet another pingback/trackback not working post šŸ™‚ * I have checked that all the boxes are ticked, I have disabled and enabled various plugins, tried different themes, installed wordpress again on a clean database, asked my host if they know anything, tested on other sites hosted else where etc. * But still pingback is not happening at all. It used to do but not anymore on my two sites. * I would like to join the fun over at [https://dailypost.wordpress.com](https://dailypost.wordpress.com) their daily prompts and weekly photos. But nothing is happening it is like Iā€™m Billy-no-mates shouting in and nobody is listening to me šŸ™‚ * The two sites Iā€™m having problems with are * [http://photos.woollypigs.com](http://photos.woollypigs.com) [http://random.woollypigs.com](http://random.woollypigs.com) * Any ideas? * Many thanks Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719388) * What is the question, exactly? Your site doesnā€™t run on WordPress.com. * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719389) * Thanks for getting back. * I would like to be able to get pingback with [https://dailypost.wordpress.com](https://dailypost.wordpress.com) since that is they way they interact with other bloggers. * I have searched over on forums .org and .com, and elsewhere on the net, trying to figure out why my wordpress self hosted have stopped to do pingback. * I have not been able to find the reason, so therefore I ask here. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719392) * Iā€™m not sure what you mean by ā€œpingbackā€ here, or what your goal is. That isnā€™t what a ā€œpingbackā€ really is. * A ā€œpingbackā€ is sort of like an automatic comment. When somebody links to your content, they have the option to send you a pingback. Your blog receives that, and makes a comment showing that to have occurred. * All that you have to do to receive pingbacks is to have them enabled. This is actually the default setting in WordPress. So, unless you explicitly turned them off, then you can receive them. * As for [https://dailypost.wordpress.com/](https://dailypost.wordpress.com/), thatā€™s a manually curated site, I believe. Not an automated one. You cannot ā€œ sendā€ anything to them. * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719395) * Thanks. * The idea with Dailypost is that you write something and then link to their prompts or weekly photo. Then you get listed on their site in their comment section because of your pingback/trackback. * > Ready to write? Each Tuesday, weā€™ll provide a theme. Publish a new post on > your blog interpreting the weekly theme. Include the pingback to this weekā€™s > challenge to share your post with the community. * More information ā€“ [https://dailypost.wordpress.com/challenge-instructions/](https://dailypost.wordpress.com/challenge-instructions/) * That part is not working for my site, I do not get linked to/from their site. * DailyPost have come back to me via [twitter](https://twitter.com/postaday/status/663778634331631616): * > 1) Hello! This is a known issue weā€™ve managed to resolve for most, but not > all, .org sites. > 2) We donā€™t currently have a solution for prompts, but you can still participate > in photo challenges via comments. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719444) * On your Settings->Discussion screen, ensure that the ā€œAttempt to notify any blogs linked to from the articleā€ setting is enabled. Then your site will send pingback messages when you link to things. * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719445) * Hey Samuel * Thanks I have that ticked for sure ā€“ [http://random.woollypigs.com/stuff/Screenshot_photos_DiscussionsSettings.png](http://random.woollypigs.com/stuff/Screenshot_photos_DiscussionsSettings.png) * Iā€™m chatting with supernovia over on .com ā€“ [https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom](https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom) * Who is hopefully figuring out what is going on. It looks like that my site is sending out https when it is http. Never played with https. * Jetpack caused an issue with the ā€œSubscriber emailsā€ that it send out links in the email in https. The jetpack team came back with ā€œI found the same problem under your site in our system (a mismatch with HTTPS) and manually corrected it, so it should be good in the emails now.ā€ * But it still looks like pingback are send out in https. I have asked my host regarding this, though still awaits an answer. * Thanks * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719457) * Well it looks like the team over on wordpress.com have hit a wall. * [https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom?replies=23#post-2497667](https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom?replies=23#post-2497667) * Anyone here got an idea? * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719458) * Do you have SSH access to your server? * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719459) * No, I havenā€™t needed that yet. Shall I enable it and what is your idea, because I can ask my host to do it for me. * Thanks * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719470) * Pingbacks rely on a system in WordPress called wp-cron. Basically, WordPress sends the pingbacks in a background process. To do this, WordPress makes a connection back to itself. * If the server does not know its own address properly, or the DNS is borked, then it canā€™t make that connection. Things that will be adversely affected by this include pingbacks and scheduled posts. * Logging onto the server and attempting to ping your own domain name would find out if the DNS is incorrect. Trying to schedule a post and seeing if it actually posts on time would be another way to verify if wp-cron is working properly. * Thread Starter [woollypigs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woollypigs/) * (@woollypigs) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-to-dailypostwordpresscom/#post-6719471) * Hi * I have passed this onto my host. I have noticed that my scheduled posts have stopped working too, it have worked on and off over the years. But never knew where to look. * Thanks. 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