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4/25/2008 2:26 PM
 

Flomi,

Trackback is a way for other people to link to let your blog engine know that they've linked to you.  It's actually an older standard and is in the process of being replaced by pingback because of the misuse of this feature.  The trackback link is included so that other people reading your blog entry can right click the link and choose Copy Shortcut (or the equivalent in your browser).  Many people who have discovered this for the first time have found the Wikipedia article on the subject to be a helpful place to start.

Regarding your settings above, they are configured to allow you to include trackbacks and to allow you to recieve trackbacks.  Allow Trackback comments says that if I enter a post, I can go to one of your posts, right click the Trackback URL and include it in my Trackback textbox when I'm creating my post.  This will send a Trackback request to your blog which will add a comment to your comments basically saying that I'm linking to your blog post.  This auto addition to your comments happens because you've checked AllowTrackback Comments.  You are not currently requiring approval for trackback comments, so they'll appear automatically. 

The Trackback Auto Discovery feature basically means that every time you publish a new post, DotNetNuke will scan your post and look for URLs.  It will then attempt to read the contents of each page for each URL to see if the page supports Trackbacks.  This autotrackback feature will probably not work with most of the major blogging services since they've moved on to pingback which isn't implemented yet in the DotNetNuke Blog module.  I thinkn TypePad may still use Trackback and of course other DotNetNuke blogs can understand Trackback pings. 

My suggestion would be to just ignore this feature for now if you don't need it.  If you think it's going to be confusing for your users, then you can remove the Trackback link by changing the module.css file so that the blog_trackback class is hidden.

.blog_trackback {display:none;}

HTH,

Don



Don Worthley
Software Architect
Element Eleven

 
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4/25/2008 2:43 PM
 

Thanks Don

This helps a lot.One more question though, What does the trackback link do? When I click on it in Firefox I get an error :


        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
     

 <response>
<error>0</error>

 <rss version="0.91">

 <channel>

 <title>
new entry asdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
</title>

 <link>
http://....</link>

 <description>
<p>Desc</description>
<language>en-US</language>
</channel>
</rss>
</response>

Can you help me with that. In IE I get this error

 

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

 
 

Internet Explorer does not support this feed format.

 

Go back to the previous page.

 

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4/25/2008 3:02 PM
 

The Trackback link is intended to receive data, not show it.  There are some blog providers which show a friendly version of the content when the Trackback URL is accessed without sending data, but the blog module just shows the XML you see.  The intended use for this link is for the readers of your blog to have a link they can right click to copy the Trackback URL for your blog post into their clipboard.  They will then paste this link inside a textbox in their blog editor for Trackback URLs.

HTH,

Don



Don Worthley
Software Architect
Element Eleven

 
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10/20/2008 8:13 PM
 

I am using the latest blog module and can't seem to make this work.   Are there any backend settings that need to be in place to make this happen?

Don Worthley wrote
 

The Trackback link is intended to receive data, not show it.  There are some blog providers which show a friendly version of the content when the Trackback URL is accessed without sending data, but the blog module just shows the XML you see.  The intended use for this link is for the readers of your blog to have a link they can right click to copy the Trackback URL for your blog post into their clipboard.  They will then paste this link inside a textbox in their blog editor for Trackback URLs.

HTH,

Don

 
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11/3/2008 6:53 PM
 

Works now that I installed the new 3.05 module.

joiseystud wrote
 

I am using the latest blog module and can't seem to make this work.   Are there any backend settings that need to be in place to make this happen?

 Don Worthley wrote
 

 

The Trackback link is intended to receive data, not show it.  There are some blog providers which show a friendly version of the content when the Trackback URL is accessed without sending data, but the blog module just shows the XML you see.  The intended use for this link is for the readers of your blog to have a link they can right click to copy the Trackback URL for your blog post into their clipboard.  They will then paste this link inside a textbox in their blog editor for Trackback URLs.

HTH,

Don

 

 
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