WordPress pingbacks finally work!
January 11, 2008
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For the last few months, there were no pingbacks/trackbacks being displayed for posts on Online Presence.
I never got the time to dig into it till today. It turned out that my hosting provider had disabled access to xml-rpc for security purposes. Luckily, they provided a mechanism using the .htaccess file to enable it, if required. I tried it out and viola!, pingbacks and trackbacks work again.
That just brings a smile back on my face. Of course, I’ll be moderating them to ensure there is no spam coming through.
Does anyone know of a way to generate missed pingbacks/trackbacks, possibly by using Technorati as the intermediary?
WP may refresh it itsself after some time - it happened to me.
HOW did you fix it?
I guess this would vary from one hosting provider to another.
In my case, I had to add a few lines in the .htaccess file to reactivate support for xml-rpc.
WHAT are the few lines you put in the .htaccess file ?
This is what I added to the .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterRemove 114
</IfModule>