I contacted WordPress support yesterday to find out what was going on with the pingbacks. All the Happiness Engineer was able to tell me is that it’s just me. Everyone else’s are working. Mine are, in fact, not working in either direction – I pinged back to Dale’s site yesterday for the photo challenge and he never received my link.
So it seems WordPress doesn’t like me; your guess is as good as mine as to why. At the moment I’m still waiting for a developer to get back to me. I’m not holding my breath that it will happen before 2am when I post my next prompt, so if you plan to participate in One-Liner Wednesday tomorrow, I’m afraid you’ll have to manually enter your link in my comment section, so I and everyone else will see your post.
Apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully this will get sorted out before Saturday and SoCS rolls around again.
lindaghill.com 
April 13, 2016 at 9:06 am
I have heard it’s a issue with self hosted sites. I cant create a ping back. You are not alone.
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April 13, 2016 at 4:22 am
It definitely isn’t just you, mine aren’t working either.
Also, I’m having a lot of problems loading and commenting on Blogger posts in the A-Z challenge (although a great many of those appear to be links to blogs who are not actually taking part, which is a bit naughty) and I have even seen Blogger users complaining they are having to repost comments manually from WordPress bloggers because they aren’t showing up.
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April 13, 2016 at 1:44 am
Strange….
Hope you get things sorted Linda!
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April 13, 2016 at 12:59 am
Hope this gets resolved soon, Linda. I been through this a while ago. Quite frustating.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:50 pm
I couldn’t comment on Reader – is there a quota for the number allowed? I’m going to ask a really dumb question. What’s the difference between links and pingbacks? Are they the pink coloured boxes that pop up in the Reader at times ? I use the link widget to add what I thought was pingbacks into my posts. Confused….
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April 12, 2016 at 9:57 pm
I’ll try to explain. If I go to your latest post and copy its URL, and then paste it in the body of my post, you will get a pingback in your comment section. Then, if you click on that pingback, it will take you from your comment section straight to my post. It basically links the two posts together.
So yes, if you’re linking to other posts (not the blog, but the specific post) then you’re creating a pingback.
I really hope this makes sense. 😛
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April 12, 2016 at 10:28 pm
It does. Thanks 🙂 It means I have been doing it right, phew !
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April 12, 2016 at 10:50 pm
Excellent! 🙂
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April 12, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Oh, and no, there shouldn’t be a quota. This post: https://lindaghill.com/2015/12/31/just-jot-it-january-2016-rules/ has 448 comments, most of which are pingbacks.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:20 pm
Every once in a while, the Pingback Pilferer will make its rounds around the Internet with covetous larceny in its heart. Stalking from site to site, it will abscond with Pingbacks placed precisely in its pocket.
No one knows how the Pingback Pilferer came into existence. Some say it was formed by the loneliest ones and zeros that banded together because nobody else wanted them. Others say that they were forged from the tears of Internet trolls who cried themselves to sleep every night.
What I do know is that the Pingback Pilferer cannot abide happiness and friendship, and whether it steals a single pingback or a slew of them, it will not be able to linger here for long. Here’s to hoping it flies away soon, Linda.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Hahaha! Thank you for that, my dear. 🙂 I have half a hope! 😀
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April 12, 2016 at 9:51 pm
The Dark Side of the Blogosphere …
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April 12, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Hehe. 😉
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April 12, 2016 at 9:09 pm
It is NOT just yours! Mine didn’t go to Cee’s yesterday! 😦
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April 12, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Cee needs to complain too. They don’t know this is widespread, I don’t think.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Hmm, okay.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Wait – Did you notice if she got any pingbacks? … otherwise, I could be you… 😛
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April 12, 2016 at 9:37 pm
No, it was at least her, because she even wrote a follow-up post on it, and asked us to leave links.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:42 pm
So then I’m not the only one this is happening to. It seems kind of random – MLW is getting pingbacks today with the Tuesday Use It In A Sentence prompt. And I tried pinging back to my pseudonymous blog and it works there. Maybe it’s only blogs that get high volumes of pingbacks…?
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April 12, 2016 at 9:44 pm
That would be TRULY unfortunate, since those are the ones getting pingbacks for shares, which are rather the purpose of the pingbacks…
Did you look at The Daily Prompt thingy? That usually has hundreds…
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April 12, 2016 at 9:47 pm
I haven’t checked them, no. I probably should. But then again, that’s run by WordPress, so they’d have fixed it right away.
I have to wonder if they’re clamping down with a new rule, to make sure nobody gets too popular. They’ve done weird shit like that before.
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April 12, 2016 at 9:49 pm
:O Seriously?!?
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April 12, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Yeah. They’ll call anything “spam.”
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April 12, 2016 at 10:32 pm
>.<
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April 12, 2016 at 8:15 pm
Grrrr…technology *shakes fist*
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April 12, 2016 at 8:17 pm
🙂 If only it helped! 😛
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April 12, 2016 at 7:50 pm
Mine never worked. I just assumed it was me!
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April 12, 2016 at 7:55 pm
In both directions?
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April 12, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Mine randomly stopped working a year ago. People can usually ping back to my site, but it’s one sided. My pings never go through when I try to use it and I always just have to drop a hard link in the comments. Mysteries of wordprss.
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April 12, 2016 at 7:55 pm
I can actually only manage to embed a link in my posts by changing to text mode and coding it myself. Have you tried that? I can show you how if you don’t know…
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April 12, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Mine still don’t work on some other blogs. I still do them, but they don’t show up. I do go into the comments and leave a link, though. It is annoying!
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April 12, 2016 at 7:39 pm
It is! It’s definitely on my end this time though. Not a single pingback showed up on Saturday. And I pinged my own post today, and nothing.
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April 12, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Mine are not working either. Not even the pingbacks to my own previous posts. You can point them to my site if you want to prove that “everybody’s” aren’t working. I’ll make sure to leave a comment on your page for #1linerWeds
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April 12, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Try linking, just in case. I just tried an outgoing pingback to another blog and it worked. So I guess it’s just my incoming ones now.
Thanks, Dan. 🙂
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April 12, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Will do. Thanks!
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April 12, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Another blogger I planned to write a guest post for has been having wP issues too. Hopefully both issues are resolved quickly. When it works great, but when it doesn’t…
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April 12, 2016 at 7:27 pm
…it’s a pain in a few different body parts. 😛
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April 12, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Maybe you’ve reached your ping-back quota?? 😉 ❤
Diana xo
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April 12, 2016 at 7:28 pm
Oh boy, that would suck. I had hundreds in January, so if it’s a yearly thing, I may as well give up. 😛 😉
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April 12, 2016 at 7:34 pm
As far as I know there is no quota on ping-backs, just photos. 🙂
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April 12, 2016 at 7:38 pm
🙂 Hope you’re right!
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April 12, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Apparently you are not alone, a few people have been missing pingbacks lately.
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April 12, 2016 at 7:29 pm
I wonder if anyone else has complained. It’s a real pain for me, since I average about 50 a week. Thanks for mentioning that, Sue. 🙂
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April 12, 2016 at 7:35 pm
I know a few have not shown up on mine. No idea if anyone has reported it though.
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April 12, 2016 at 7:41 pm
If pingbacks aren’t showing up when you know they should, and there are a few of them, it might be you too. …maybe I’m not the only one WordPress doesn’t like. 😛
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