Comments on: Does WordPress Need Trackbacks Any More?

By: p1nk g33k

p1nk g33k — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:05:43 +0000

To be honest, I know very little about pingbacks and trackbacks. I know that they’re *supposed* to be used when your blog is linked in another blogger’s post?? But, all I know is that I receive a lot of them from spammers, so I just delete them and think of them as nothing but a pain. If someone wants to let me know that they posted about my blog post, I’d rather have them leave a comment with a link to the post.

So, I wouldn’t be opposed to WordPress removing the ability to send trackbacks or pingbacks in future releases.

By: Trackback Declared Dead… Again! : The Blog Herald

Trackback Declared Dead… Again! : The Blog Herald — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:40 +0000

[...] over and over again. This recently led Kyle Eslick from Hack WordPress to ask his readers “Does WordPress Need Trackbacks Any More?” Eslick’s own answer is straightforward: “In my opinion, blogging has outgrown [...]

By: Troy Duncan

Troy Duncan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:58:43 +0000

Trackbacks are another way for people to participate in the conversation. Pingbacks are OK, but are they used across all blogging platforms? Comments are also good but they lack the depth that blog posts provide.

Instead of removing choices, I would like blogging platforms to develop more ways to extend the conversation.

By: Bengt - fortyplustwo

Bengt - fortyplustwo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:56:05 +0000

Pingbacks might not be the ultimate solution but I do prefer them compared to having to rely on Google or Technorati.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:49:42 +0000

Hi I love pings, I hate trackbacks( linkgrabber and spams and so on) and I doesn’t use microformats -

Microformats are only for freaks- source get bigger and bigger and microformats are good for alle the content grabber all over the world–to give information with microformats you must be a freak, not a “normal user”.

It doesn’t make sense to say:WP must be useable for the “greens” and newbies and than say:hey use microformats to inform about this and that ;)

Ping is simple as possible and the best way to inform the “whole wide world”

kindly regards
Monika

By: Martin Emmerich

Martin Emmerich — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:00:04 +0000

Trackbacks and pingbacks are the threads of the blog web and part of the blogging culture.

By: André Wegner

André Wegner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:24:21 +0000

I decided for my blogs already some months ago to disable trackbacks. I can acknowledge it was 99.99% spam.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:48:10 +0000

Trackbacks are useless, and pingbacks almost useless; although, in the case of the latter this is down to the way they are processed and not the mechanism itself.

I am a firm believer that microformats, or similar methods, can create a distinction between ‘look at this’ links and actual commentary to make automated cross linking relevant again.

This is the reason I produced my hReview pingback plugin, and why I am considering submitting something similar to the WordPress Trac.