Title: sending multiple trackbacks problem Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # sending multiple trackbacks problem * [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/) * Hi, after updating to Wp 3.4 version I notice that the trackback URLS I send is not separated probably. I am using spaces between them but after sending, I ‘ve got this: * Already pinged: * [http://www.example.com/article/trackback/http://www.example.com/article/trackback/http://www.example.com/article/trackback/](http://www.example.com/article/trackback/http://www.example.com/article/trackback/http://www.example.com/article/trackback/) * which usually should be like this: * Already pinged: * [http://www.example.com/article/trackback/](http://www.example.com/article/trackback/) [http://www.example.com/article/trackback/](http://www.example.com/article/trackback/) [http://www.example.com/article/trackback/](http://www.example.com/article/trackback/) * Anyone else has notice this issue? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830170) * Still looking for some feedback and help with this. Are trackbacks working for other people using 3.4? * [NetzBlogging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzblogging/) * (@netzblogging) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830220) * I’ve also the problem. … 🙁 * [NetzBlogging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzblogging/) * (@netzblogging) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830221) * To solve this problem i have an workaround: Set between the trackback-links the html entities for a space. * like …/trackback/ [http://…](http://…); * I think its not right but it does the trackbacks sending. LG Timm * [NetzBlogging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzblogging/) * (@netzblogging) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830222) * so once more: * like `.../trackback/ http://...` * Thread Starter [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830223) * Many users face this issue. WordPress admins has anything to say about it please? * Thread Starter [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830224) * NetzBlogging I have test your theory is not looking exactly as should be, are you sure the trackbacks is sending? * [NetzBlogging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzblogging/) * (@netzblogging) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830225) * i hope so. I wrote to the blogs for responding. Now I’m waiting. 🙂 LG Timm * Thread Starter [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830226) * Okay I send a few trackbacks if I’ve got any response I ‘ll let you know, thanks! 🙂 * p.s. If this doesn’t work is make sense to use the line break html tag between urls. `
` * Anyway we will see how is goes the first one 🙂 * Update: No, don’t try the second one is not working… * Thread Starter [Stergos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stergos/) * (@stergos) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830229) * Hoping that new WP version 3.4.1 has fix this issue but no don’t bother to try it. * [faddah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faddah/) * (@faddah) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830274) * bump! i’m seeing this issue also. where do we file bugs for wp core? and I’m seeing it in 3.4.1. * and has anyone tested to see if this is 3.4.1 itself, or 3.4.1 reacting badly against a certain theme or plug-in? i’m using a child theme of twentyeleven i developed and several plug-ins at my site, [http://ialsowent.com](http://ialsowent.com). * again: wordpress admins or core devs, any help, at least that you acknowledge the problem exists and are working on a fix, would be appreciated. * — faddah portland, oregon. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830276) * > again: wordpress admins or core devs, any help, at least that you acknowledge > the problem exists and are working on a fix, would be appreciated. * 1) Forums are manned by the volunteers. None of us get paid by wordpress.org to do this 🙂 * 2) No answer doesn’t mean no one saw it, it means no one has an answer. I know, it’s weird. * 3) We DO have a place to report bugs, it’s called trac, but I’m not entirely sure that’s needed. Yet. * Let’s step back. * > Hi, after updating to Wp 3.4 version I notice that the trackback URLS I send > is not separated probably. * How are you ‘sending’ these trackbacks? For example, when I do that, I tend to have an in-line link. In my sentence, I’ll link back to the site I’m talking about. I did this just yesterday, and it worked fine, so let’s first make sure we’re all talking the same thing. Are you just putting in a raw URL, two in a row, to ‘ping’ another site? * [faddah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faddah/) * (@faddah) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830277) * hi ipstenu, * thank you for your response. * as to your requests for more info on this issue — * > How are you ‘sending’ these trackbacks? * i can’t speak for [stergos](http://www.e-hacking.com/) (hopefully she’ll see this and respond also), but for myself, i am doing it just as the wordpress.org support info says to do it, in the trackback field provided by wp-core in the edit post screen. see — [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts), and [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks), and [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks). * i put my referenced links in that provided trackback field in the edit post screen of wp-core, i separate each link with a space, as it says to do on that edit screen, when there are multiple links. prior to WP 3.4, doing that would notify the non-WP legacy sites that i referenced them just fine. in WP 3.4 & still in 3.4.1, it takes the multiple links, separated by spaces as it says to in the edit post WP screen, and takes out the spaces so it becomes one, long, meaningless garbage line, then attempts to send to _that_ (which is garbage). consequently, the separate non-WP sites never get notified of the trackback. * > For example, when I do that, I tend to have an in-line link. In my sentence, > I’ll link back to the site I’m talking about. I did this just yesterday, and > it worked fine, so let’s first make sure we’re all talking the same thing. * i do that, _and_ for sites that are non-WP, i put links, sometimes multiple ones, separated by spaces, as it says to in that trackback field in the edit post WP screen. that’s what you should do. worked fine prior to WP 3.4. in WP 3.4 & 3.4.1, removes the spaces between links on “save draft” or “publish” and the track back links become a smushed together garbage line. * > Are you just putting in a raw URL, two in a row, to ‘ping’ another site? * i am doing this as a _trackback_, to non-WP sites, as i know WP site are automatically pingbacked. so yes, as it says to in the edit post WP screen in WP-Core, i put in multiple non-WP links i reference and separate them with a space. prior to WP 3.4, this worked fine. in WP 3.4 & 3.4.1, takes out the spaces on “save draft” or “publish” and it becomes a garbage line. * this is easy enough to test. in WP 3.4 or 3.4.1 — 1. create a new post in WP 2. in the post, have links in-line with your verbiage to non-WP sites, say three of them. 3. in the trackback field in the edit post WP screen, put your three or so non- WP site links, separated by spaces, as it says to right on the screen for that trackback field. 4. click on “save draft” or “publish.” 5. go back and look at at the trackback field. * expected result — in WP 3.3.x and earlier versions, it handled the non-WP trackbacks fine and notified those sites of the links in the post or page to it. * issue — in WP 3.4 & 3.4.1 still, the spaces between the links in the trackback field are removed on “save draft” or “publish” and the multiple link line becomes one long garbage line and WP attempts to notify that, which, of course does not work. * i hope that all answers your queries and makes it clearer to you. please let us no if you have any further questions, but this should be enough to notify WP-Core devs thru trace and post an issue, please. * thank you for your response to this. i hope this moves this along. * best, * — faddah portland, oregon. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830278) * > i do that, and for sites that are non-WP, i put links, sometimes multiple ones, > separated by spaces, as it says to in that trackback field in the edit post > WP screen. * Okay… Wow. I honestly did not know ANYONE still did that. For the last umpteen years, you just in-line linked, and every blogging system picks that up now. Really 😉 * I dug back through trac, and the only related change I see is this one: [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19675](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19675) * The ticket it’s based on is [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17560](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17560) * I’m not sure if it’s actually pinging and outputting badly, or not pinging at all. * For reporting bugs: [http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/](http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/) * [faddah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faddah/) * (@faddah) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830280) * hi again, ipstenu, * thank you for responding again and the follow up. i’m glad that it seems you understand a little better what we are trying to do here, that is a part of the main WP core edit post screen. however, some things you responded with have me a bit a confused. * > Okay… Wow. I honestly did not know ANYONE still did that. For the last umpteen > years, you just in-line linked, and every blogging system picks that up now. > Really 😉 * this seems to fly in direct contradiction to what WordPress.org’s codex currently says about non-WP site linked trackbacks, and what i quoted to you previously in this thread from the current WP codex in [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts), [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks), and [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks). what you say is true about _pingbacks_, which are in-line links to other WP sites, but the current codex says quite plainly this is what you do with _trackbacks_, which are to _non_-WP sites. or at least, that is what the codex, in the sections i’ve quoted to you, says. * if i may please ask, is there some section of WordPress.org or the codex or some other documentation that i am missing, that supports what you are saying here? it’s not that i doubt you, but as i point out, this is in contradiction to what the WP codex says. * > I dug back through trac, and the only related change I see is this one: [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19675](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19675) > The ticket it’s based on is [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17560](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17560) * o.k., that appears to make sense that it might be where this change in WP 3.4& 3.4.1 came from. however, if this is just for windows live writer, it seems a bit cutting off the nose to spite the face. the problem he was getting was in the server returning in the cron “comma separated,” and in the trackbacks field in the WP edit post screen, it clearly states clearly to separate the URLs with spaces only. in sanitizing, while i’m not quite sure what constant variables like “PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY” or function/method lines like — * ``` else $to_ping = ''; ``` * … do, exactly, it appears they are, as you guess, removing spaces entirely where they don’t need to in the trackback field and thus might be causing the problem. * > For reporting bugs: [http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/](http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/) * o.k., i’ll file a bug there after reading then accompanying how-to-file info, and report back here when i have done so. * thank you again for working with me on this. i’d be interested on your response to the above. * best, * — faddah portland, oregon * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-multiple-trackbacks-problem/#post-2830281) * The codex isn’t always up to date, and I’m going to leave it at that. (I’m part of the volunteer team who is trying to wrangle updates, it’s a slow process, and I know it’s a lame thing to say that it’s imperfect, but please, dont assume the codex is perfect.) * Honestly, I say it’s old and unused becuase you’re the first people in four years I’ve heard of using it. I know that blogger, MT, WP, and most any other CMS I cam think of knows how to handle a link. I also know a lot of people find those trackbacks abused by spammers and turn ’em off :/ * But yes, report a bug. 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