<http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks>
They're very similar but slightly different in their technical implementation.
The easiest way to describe the concept is "remote comments."
Sometimes you want to comment on a post that someone else wrote, but you'd rather write the comment on your own blog. Trackbacks and Pingbacks notify the original author that you've written a comment and it exists on your own site. The notification process also allows your remote comments to be included in the comments section of the original blog post.
Hope that makes sense...
-josh
On 3/17/06, Richard Show <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know this is something really basic about blogging, I should know, since I hear the term all the time and everything, but ... anyway
1) What does it mean to "allow pings" in wordpress
2) In making posts and stuff I occasionally get an email that says something about pings regarding a post or category and I don't know what that means
... in case you hadn't guessed, I'm changing to wordpress ...
... any help on pings 101 would be appreciated ... thanks .. Richard
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