Dec 8, 2014 / Voices from the Community

A Message on Pingbacks

We’re working to resolve pingback issues as quickly as possible.

Here at The Daily Post, nothing thrills us more than seeing so many bloggers come in every day to share their work with the community. Whether it’s in response to our Daily Prompts, Writing Challenges, or Photo Challenges, we love to witness the discussions and friendships that emerge from interaction on our pages.

Which is why we’re particularly sorry that many of you have been experiencing technical problems while creating pingbacks to our site in recent weeks.

We’d like to thank all of you for the patience you’ve been showing while we work to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. It’s already taken us longer than we’d hoped for, but we want to make sure we get it sorted out once and for all.

In the meantime, those affected should feel free to share their challenge entries as links in the comments of each challenge post. We’ll let you know as soon as pingbacks once again work for everyone.

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  3. Ben – you have such a great “delivery style” – and not to sound corny – but when I read this and a different post from you last month – well I just thought “what smooth delivery” – well you and the WP gang too. Peace

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      1. just reminding my followers, friends and co-posters that my blog is still not pinging. my post today on sweet lies is called ‘Silence is white’ and can be accessed directly by pasting antonwillseve.com into your browser.

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  5. hey i have a question: i want to turn my blog into a dot com, there was an offer on here to do it for $19 a year but now i can’t find it where do i go to find this ?

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  8. Finally, this issue is addressed by you guys. I had seriously given up all hope on this that you guys will ever resolve this or even take note of it, as for some readers it is working just fine. I have recently joined WordPress and facing this issue is not something I like 😦

    I’ve been facing this issue for weeks now.

    Thank you for finally taking note of this issue. Please fix it asap.

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  13. If you actually left the comments OPEN on the Daily Prompt, it would help a bit … but you leave the comments closed, so effectively you aren’t offering any kind of workaround. After all these months … you mean you can’t even leave us open comments? Not even that? Really?

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  15. Thank you Ben for opening communication in a more transparant way. INdeed there is work going on in the backoffice but it was difficult to have a point to talk to or ask questions or find information. Now you are being actively communicating from WordPress about developments. Opening this channel improves the communication. I do hope the problem will be solved soon. Pingbacks are a way to appreciate each other on a forum like this. And I miss them dearly. Much apprecation for the techs sweating to solve this.

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      1. Well, now it is. Four weeks ago it started for me and I tried to find information about it. I posted a question on a forum and got an answer from a tech but the discussion was closed immediately. WordPress is improving safety on their sites so they introduce https. Not wrong but they started to force it on my site and the pingbacks stopped working. I had no place to go, but now I have one luckily. I got partly answers from the daily post editors by asking questions in the commentaries at the posts. So yes, there is an open forum now!

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  17. Thank you for explaining the problem. I’ve been struggling with pingbacks to the WPC for several weeks now. They work from one of my blogs, but not the other. I am looking forward to you getting the problem sorted out. The technical aspects of all this, coupled with the volume, must create quite a challenge 😉

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  18. Ben, you said that we should feel free to share our entries as links in the comments of the challenge post, but the daily prompt has not enabled comments. We have no way to share our entries. Where can we leave our links?

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    2. Comments are open on our writing and photo challenges, but not daily prompts, which were conceived more directly with pingbacks in mind. I’m sincerely sorry for the inconvenience this is causing to so many bloggers.

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      1. But in the absence of pingbacks and comments to share our posts with other bloggers there is almost no sense to participate in the prompt.

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      2. We really hope to restore pingbacks as soon as possible so that bloggers once again have a chance to share their work with the community. In the meantime, people can of course use tags (daily prompt, postaday, etc.) to mark their posts as being in response to daily prompts. We’re aware, of course, that this is far from ideal.

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  19. First, thank you for your time in trying to correct this problem. It is appreciated.

    Second, I wrote a post for today’s challenge and on this post it says to “feel free to share their challenge entries as links in the comments of each challenge post.” This would be great, but there seems to be no comment section on today’s prompt page for “Sweet Little Lies.” Where should we post our links at?

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    1. Unfortunately, the pingback issue has proven tougher to resolve quickly than we’d hoped. We decided that the best course of action for now would be to close pingbacks until they’re fully functional for everyone again. In the meantime, people can of course tag their posts (postaday, daily prompt, daily post prompt, etc) in a way that helps other community members to find their posts in the Reader.

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      1. Thank you for your assistance, Ben. Also, for your quick response. Technical problems happen. In the meantime, I will make sure that my posts are tagged appropriately.

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  24. I don’t know if this helps, but the other day my post did not ping back when I published it, so I went into the text editor of my post, removed the ‘s’ from the https at the beginning of the ping back link, hit ‘update’ and it ping-backed within one minute.

    for example: changes to

    any thoughts?

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      2. hi Martha, of course yes, I did “copy and paste it somewhere then delete the “s” from https” that I did do to which the two links came up in my first comments, you ned some brackets around them to stop them from automatically becoming a link. and yes, of course the ping backs are closed now, I can see that, I am trying to suggest a way that may help in getting them open again.

        anyway thanks for your helpful comments,

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  29. This is clearly North Korea’s latest hacking attempt, meant to keep writers and photographers from expressing our freedom of speech by blocking pingbacks.

    Just kidding.

    But seriously: I need to respond to the prompt. Somebody needs to get President Obama on the phone. We have a situation.

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