Tag Archives: Trackbacks

More plugins needed

If I ever find the time…

  1. Need one to get rid of those lame » (>>) characters that WordPress puts in Trackbacks, since they make the XML in the comment feeds not parse correctly
  2. A new spam plugin. I turned my old one off because it was blocking trackbacks and pingbacks, but I haven’t had time to fix it yet, and I’ve been getting an average of 200 spam comments a day. They all get moderated, so they don’t show up on the site, but it’s still getting kind of annoying.

I wonder

If the new version of Wordpress fixes that thing where it puts those annoying >> things in the trackbacks/pingbacks, which break the XML feeds. If not, time to add another plugin to the list.

Trackbacks and pingbacks

are now working again to my blog. Previously they were being prevented by one or more of my comment spam prevention plugins, including my own. I will have to fix these when I get a chance, but until then I will leave them off so I don’t miss out on all the trackbacks and pingbacks I’m sure I would otherwise be getting. Of course, it would help if WordPress treated trackbacks & pingbacks completely separately from comments, but oh well.

UPDATE - Now I just realized that I will have to update my Recent Comments plugins as well, to include an option for whether tb/pb’s should be included. I had to abbreviate there, because I’ve typed “trackback” and “pingback” far too many times already, in this post alone.