It’s more widespread than I thought. Please check first if your posts allow pingbacks before you complain to WordPress. Here’s how:
Thank you to Chris, The Story Reading Ape, for the visual: https://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2016/04/13/experiencing-problems-with-pingbacks-on-your-wordpress-blog-then-please-read-this/
If you’ve checked the above settings and your pingbacks still aren’t working, please let WordPress know.
Remember – it might only be your incoming pingbacks. If you’re expecting some, like I do with my prompts, you’ll know. If you’re not expecting any, ask a friend to try linking to one of your posts to see if you get a notification. If I get time later, I’ll help you. Please let me know in the comments.
Got all that? Great! Please click on the original post to read Hugh’s thoughts on the matter!
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April 15, 2016 at 3:34 am
Pingbacks still not working.
That’s not the only weird WP glitch at the moment; when I share posts to my blog Facebook page, they get posted with incorrect, totally random thumbnails, sometimes from completely different posts, even if I assign a featured image to them.
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April 13, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Your post pingback works OK Linda – and it brought me to the relevant post – HOWEVER – the strange thing is that the pingback actually appears under another post LOLOL – it’s in the comments at:
https://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2016/04/13/just-an-odd-job-girl-serialisation-chapter-six-hot-footing-it-up-escalators/
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April 13, 2016 at 12:52 pm
Thanks for the info … some have mentioned this to me.
Question: where did your reblog button go? I’d like to reblog this. Thx .. 🙂
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April 13, 2016 at 12:53 pm
I found out this morning that you can’t re-blog a reblog. You’ll have to go to Hugh’s original post and reblog that. 😛
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April 13, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Oh …. ok … I knew that. Reason I asked is bc I’d lost some other “reblog buttons” in other posts. TY!!! 🙂
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April 13, 2016 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for sharing, Linda.
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April 13, 2016 at 12:48 pm
It’s actually good to know I’m not alone – when I first contacted them on Monday, they told me it was only me.
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April 13, 2016 at 12:55 pm
That’s so unfair. I must admit that when I first contacted them and asked how sorting out the Pingback problem affecting all WordPress blogs was going, they were rather at a loss as to what I was referring to. He said he knew nothing of any Pingback problems and then asked me for examples which I sent him. That’s when I found out it was not affecting everybody and he said it was not a site problem but was only affecting some blogs. They had no idea my blog was affected.
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