My last experience with pingbacks not working gave me enough insight to figure out what’s going on this time.
Some of the pingbacks on One-Liner Wednesday worked, and some didn’t. It turns out that this time, if you have a .wordpress.com site–a free site that is–your pingbacks won’t work, at least when you’re trying to link to a custom site like mine. If you have a custom site, they work. Last time it was the other way around.
I hate to have to ask you again, but please, if you participate in one of my prompts, check to make sure your link is in my comment section after you’ve posted. This goes for yesterday’s One-Liner Wednesday, and based on the last WP breakdown of pingbacks, likely anything you link to for the next week. I’ll leave a reminder on the Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
lindaghill.com 
June 9, 2016 at 4:53 pm
Well, that explains why my pingback for Tuesday Use It In A Sentence didn’t work
What a pain! Hope it’s fixed soon. I’ll try to remember to check and comment any links if I have to.
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June 9, 2016 at 9:50 pm
It didn’t work yesterday either. I put your link in there myself. Yours was one of the three that alerted me that there was a problem.
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June 9, 2016 at 10:12 pm
Thanks for sharing my link. I really hope this gets fixed soon. It’s quite annoying.
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June 9, 2016 at 10:21 pm
Me too. And yeah, it is.
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June 9, 2016 at 4:50 pm
Thanks for the info. I’ll leave a comment on SoCS
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June 9, 2016 at 9:49 pm
You should be okay since your URL doesn’t have “.wordpress” in it. But it’s always a good idea to check anyway. 🙂
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June 10, 2016 at 8:13 am
Will do.
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June 9, 2016 at 12:46 pm
Hey Linda. I was over voting on best blogs on a London site and I saw your name in the category of book reviewing. I voted for you.
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June 9, 2016 at 2:07 pm
It’s another Linda Hill… 😛 I’m sure she’ll appreciate it though. 🙂
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June 9, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Mine does not seem to have made it through either: http://wp.me/p4yv1P-10r
BTW not sure if it matters but my blog is a free site as well and this morning, for the first time ever I have not received any of the pingbacks to Thursday Doors.
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June 9, 2016 at 2:06 pm
It’ll happen to everyone until they fix it – at least to those who have the .wordpress.com in their URL. You didn’t get Joey’s either? She’s .com…
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June 9, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Nada. Not one pingback has come in from anywhere today and I’m up to close to forty contributors who all link back to my page.
First time for me though, so for a free site I’m more than getting my money’s worth 😉
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June 9, 2016 at 2:24 pm
The way it was explained to me last time was they were changing all the (paid) sites from http to https. They must be working on the free ones now. It took about 10 days before I got my pingbacks back last time. It might take longer this time, since I can imagine there are more free sites than paid-for ones.
Last time I put a notice at the top of my prompt posts, asking people to link in the comments. For you, you might just want to remind them about the Linky Link, and mention that their pings won’t show up.
Writing my Thursday Doors post as we speak! 😀
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June 9, 2016 at 10:56 am
This is so frustrating, especially as it was only recently fixed. I’ve contacted WordPress for an update. They will probably tell me they were not aware of the problem again! Let’s hope they fix it soon.
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June 9, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Last time it took what, about 10 days? Grrrr…
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June 10, 2016 at 2:42 am
I’ve heard back from them and at least, this time, they are admitting there is a problem. I plan to keep bothering them until it’s fixed.
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June 10, 2016 at 6:53 am
Good idea. I’ll bug them a bit today too. Apparently it’s affecting the Daily Post this time too, so there’s bound to be some backlash.
Thanks for the update, Hugh. 🙂
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June 9, 2016 at 10:17 am
https://thoughtsuncoveredblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/one-liner-wednesday-smiles/
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June 9, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Thank you, Ila. 🙂
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June 9, 2016 at 8:30 am
Looks like mine didn’t work yesterday for the one-liner. *sad face*
I noticed it on the Daily Prompt earlier but thought it was just their site.
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June 9, 2016 at 9:39 pm
https://bloggityramblings.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/one-liner-photo-challenge-wednesday-smores/ It’s too good not to share. 😀
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June 10, 2016 at 9:21 am
Ha, thanks!
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June 9, 2016 at 7:05 am
I wonder if they broke during the day. Mine is a “free” site (although I pay for storage and themes and whatever) but the pingback worked. I added it pretty early in the day.
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June 9, 2016 at 9:36 pm
If you pay at all, your site isn’t considered free. The only way you can get rid of that “.wordpress” in your URL is to give them money. Anyone who DOES have that in their URL, their pingback doesn’t work.
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June 10, 2016 at 7:31 am
Oh, ok. Thanks for the explanation. So much I don’t know about this place.
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June 10, 2016 at 7:45 am
Not important on a day-to-day basis. I tend not to know most of that stuff myself.
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June 9, 2016 at 3:23 am
Having screamed I see my pingback worked ( I am whispering because I am using a free blog) Oh! Confusion reins and we all get wet!
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June 9, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Actually, I posted your link in my comments. It seems to work in your post, but that’s as far as it goes.
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June 10, 2016 at 1:27 am
Oh! Sorry Linda that is so typically WP , they obviously want to treat us mean and keep us keen ! 😠 Thank you for posting my link. xxxx
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June 10, 2016 at 7:23 am
Haha. Yes, just one more “improvement” they’re blessing us with. 🙄
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June 10, 2016 at 8:55 am
Aye ❤
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June 9, 2016 at 3:19 am
Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
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June 9, 2016 at 3:09 am
Hi Linda..I participated in “One Liner Wednesday” yesterday but the ping back to you didn’t work. Hence pasting the link of the one -liner here.
https://trickyemotions.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/one-liner-wednesday-travel/
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June 9, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Thanks! We’ll know for next week, if they’re still not working. Grrr…
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June 14, 2016 at 1:32 am
😦
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June 9, 2016 at 2:36 am
Mine haven’t worked for many months, not doing anything different then I did when I first was able to. They used to work. Mine is free WordPress.
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June 9, 2016 at 9:31 pm
I’ve noticed yours never work. It’s weird. I do appreciate that you keep coming back, despite the inconvenience of having to link manually every time. 🙂
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June 10, 2016 at 1:30 am
You are welcome. I am used to manually linking now, besides I like your prompts etc.
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June 10, 2016 at 7:22 am
Thank you, Tessa. 🙂
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June 9, 2016 at 1:47 am
I don’t think the “free” part matters. My blog is on the free plan, but my pingback is ok.
Is it just if a blog has a custom domain name?
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June 9, 2016 at 8:38 pm
If you don’t have “.wordpress” in your domain name, then you’ve paid something for it. And yours doesn’t.
If I’m wrong, please let me know.
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June 10, 2016 at 12:59 am
Oh, l thought you meant a paid WordPress account. My domain is from someone else.
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June 10, 2016 at 7:26 am
I do mean a paid WordPress account. You mean diaryofaninternetnobody isn’t WP?
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June 10, 2016 at 8:35 am
No, the blog is a free WordPress plan.
But I bought my domain name from 123reg.com
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June 10, 2016 at 9:37 am
Okay. The point is, they explained to me last time that the reason the pingbacks didn’t work was they were working on changing the custom domain sites (without the “.wordpress” in the URL) from http to https. Since yours doesn’t have that, it’s not affected this time – I’m assuming they’re working on converting the others now.
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June 10, 2016 at 9:56 am
Aha, I (think) I understand now. Mine still work, that’s good enough for me. ;~}
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June 9, 2016 at 1:45 am
Could be worse, we could be on Blogger…
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June 9, 2016 at 8:37 pm
Ha!
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June 9, 2016 at 1:31 am
WordPress being WordPress — again. *sigh*
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June 9, 2016 at 8:36 pm
Endlessly. 😛
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June 9, 2016 at 1:30 am
Oh drat! It is so frustrating!!!!
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June 9, 2016 at 8:35 pm
It is!
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June 9, 2016 at 10:06 pm
Hey Ritu. I was over on a London blog voting for my favorite funny blogger and I saw your name in another category so I voted for you – hope that is OK. 🙂
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June 10, 2016 at 1:51 am
Oh wow! Thank you so much! That is more than ok!!!! 😀😀😀😀
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