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The Pingback module

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Submitted by greggles on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 17:30
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This tutorial covers the Pingback module for Drupal.

This is a great module, it is worth installing! If you managed to install the module on your own website, please pingback this page for testing! Creating a pingback is really easy, now I'm creating one to this site:

http://leapon.net/en/drupal-gets-pingback

I only mentioned the above website in this post, and the Pingback module did the hard work, it's simple.

Click here to watch the screencast!


Comments

I've tried for a long time

Submitted by bdillahu (not verified) on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 04:57.

I've tried for a long time to make use of Trackbacks and never really gotten the results (hardly any at all) that I wanted. Pingback, on the first try worked... there is a nice little comment at the blog I linked to as soon as cron ran. As far as I'm concerned, a great looking module.

Now, for your site... thanks so much for the video. I'm normally not a fan of "video" stuff, but that was helpful and saved me fumbling through the setup of the format filter!

Thanks!
Bruce
http://www.craftacraft.com

Great Screencast

Submitted by Nathan (not verified) on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 08:25.

Hey thanks so much for making these great screencasts, keep 'em coming! I would never have guessed what the Pingback module was, let alone how it worked with out without watching your screencast.
I can't wait for the Drupal Miracle to come out. Please keep us posted on dates and costs!

Nathan

Pingback

Submitted by Get A Piece of Cake Now, and Smile to The World | leon.info. (not verified) on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 16:50.
[...] and some people are really using it to the extent that they fuss over maintenance and even a screencast. It is not something to be cherished by the neighborhood, but it is so fascinating that a [...]

How does it handle spam?

Submitted by Potent Mind (not verified) on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 07:11.

I decided to add trackbacks to my site and all I've gotten is spam since implementing it. Supposedly trackack will integrate Akismet at some point. But in the meantime, everyday when I check the list of trackbacks in moderation every single one is worthless. It's too time consuming deleting pages of them so I plan to get rid of trackbacks. I hope the ping module doesn't also lead to the same thing.

Can anyone comment on the level of spam?

It handles well

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 09:25.

We use it since January 18th, and we did not get any spam. You don't need to use the Captcha module for pingback. How it works: one can send you a pingback only if he/she linked to your article, under a valid domain name. And I think that the module won't allow too much pingbacks from the same domain (for more details, ask the maintainer on drupal.org).

So let's say that a spammer wants to send to your site 800 pingbacks. Then this spammer needs 800 valid domain names! And of course, if you send me a pingback from your localhost, it won't work.

the pingback module is

Submitted by payday loans (not verified) on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 12:29.

the pingback module is another great acheivement
its nice to work with

Pingback

Submitted by Blog.hest.se (not verified) on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 06:20.
[...] heller. När ska pingback fungera? Här anger de en testsida. Vi får väl se. www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/drupal-pingback Och detta skulle öka min trafikmängd... [...]

My pingback doesn't show up

Submitted by Nosfisk (not verified) on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 14:06.

I tried to pingback this page, the response was all ok, but when am I supposed to see my pingback here?

Approval needed

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 09:52.

Because we had to approve it first. But your pingback was successful.

Pingback

Submitted by New and Improved | Roy Veldman / On-Line (not verified) on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 09:35.
[...] also a test for the pingback module by Leon. A screencast on how to use this module can be found at Mastering Drupal. Roy's [...]

I've tried too

Submitted by Kelly (not verified) on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 13:24.

Like Bruce said, I never got trackbacks to work either. I will try this and see what happens. Thanks for the great screencasts...Keep em coming. :)

Track backs work great. I

Submitted by mike @ The Book Whiz (not verified) on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 01:12.

Track backs work great. I especially like them on my blogs because you actually end up getting 2 links when you get the trackback.

Mike

Thanks for the great

Submitted by Chris Hutcherson (not verified) on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 18:50.

Thanks for the great screencast, it was so helpful in understanding the pingback. Usually, I enjoy just reading a tutorial, but the screencast was actually very good. Thanks again and keep up the great work!!

All the best.

pingback module

Submitted by Glowingtree (not verified) on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 21:00.

I may have missed something in my understanding of trackbacks/pingbacks....

Does this only work between 2 Drupal sites that have the pingback module installed?
The screen cast mentions that it must be installed on 2 different sites...

Very good screencasts. I am

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 22:14.

Very good screencasts. I am spanish and I have to say that your english is clear and easy to understand though my english is not perfect.

I enjoy very much your screencasts.
Good work!

Thank you so much.
i'M looking forward to seeing the 'Drupal Miracle'

Pingback

Submitted by Pingback test (not verified) on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 18:15.
[...] is a link to pingback page for testing. If you liked this post, subscribe to our RSS [...]

Pingback verify

Submitted by Glen (not verified) on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 18:30.

Can you please confirm if my pickback worked? It seems like you need to approve the comment.
Also I have one question. This pingback module works ONLY if two sites have the same pingback module installed?

Pingback

Submitted by New and Improved | Roy Veldman (not verified) on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 11:40.
[...] also a test for the pingback module by Leon. A screencast on how to use this module can be found at Mastering Drupal. Website Add new comment Comments 4 May, 2008 - 15:40 — Leon (not [...]

Re: pingback

Submitted by Gypsy (not verified) on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 01:57.

Well I figured out that the pingback is a great leack because of spam. I get many times spam of viagra and casinos. Is there any chance to use a filter like by comments?

Re: pingback module

Submitted by Bill (not verified) on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 06:41.

Till now I know that a pingback module exists but I could not deal with it (I am new to this). But thank you to your blog and your screencast I know what I can do with it and this is amazing. Great post.

very help

Submitted by Fred (not verified) on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 09:22.

Although it is another module I now have to install. Aye!

The benefits, which are now apparent outweigh the performance penalties of running one more module...

Need help on pingback module

Submitted by nsantec on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 14:29.

Hi greggles:

First im from spain and my english is not to good...

Im building a blog-kind-wesite and install pingback module....when i log as drupal admin user and create a new blog entry and select the pingback associeted format works perfectly.....y get the message that says the pingbacked success....but on nomal users not working.

Regards.

i thought it is little bit

Submitted by vannesart4 on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 19:12.

i thought it is little bit difficult one but it is very simple.

Jack c biel

the pingback is simple i

Submitted by lynndfq9 on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 18:16.

the pingback is simple i thought it will be complicated one

lynn mark

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