I guess the slow glinding way to find the problem is to keep adding functionality to your test site until it exhibits the same problem. Ive had a brief go at sniffing for relevent bugs that may be due to fancy permalinks/clean url's, but I only found old bugs that shouldnt be relevent anymore:
http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/2005/07/26/wordpress-pingback-and- trackback/ A lot of people like pretty permalinks, Id be surprised if it were a bug that affects everyone, maybe its a certain combination of stuff? Are you using pretty permalinks in the standard wordpress way? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a gut feeling that the problem relates to using "pretty > permalinks". There are functions in wordpress which attempt to get > the post ID from the permalink, and these functions are called when a > pingback comes in. > > On my test blog (with default permalink structure) pingbacks work > fine. But at DavidMeade.com where permalinks are in the form of > http://www.davidmeade.com/archives/419 the pingbacks aren't working. > I'm wondering if wordpress is trying to get the post id in some way > that is not compatible with the permalink structure I'm using. > > I just don't know enough about this process works to know exactly > where it might be breaking. > > - Dave > > > On Feb 19, 2008 10:19 AM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well it has the same permissions as every other wordpress file on the site. > > > > For testing I changed it to 774 and still no good. > > > > - Dave > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008 9:53 AM, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008, at 6:44 AM, David Meade wrote: > > > > > > > My site > > > > just will not receive pingbacks or trackbacks. It seems to send them > > > > ok, but it doesn't receive them. > > > > > > > > > you probably checked this, but is the xmlrpc.php file in your wp > > > folder with proper permissions/owner? > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > > > -- > http://www.DavidMeade.com >
