Well, I’ve been working on debugging this blog for a few days now, and I think I finally got everything resolved. The biggest problem was with trackbacks and pingbacks. For some reason my site wasn’t sending trackbacks or pingbacks but was able to recieve them.

After much deliberation and a clean upgrade of WordPress, I finally got it working. (**I think**). Let’s hope everything is in order now. I actually reinstalled WordPress, so there may be a few bugs that I don’t know about for a little while.

In the meantime, I found some nifty websites that helped me figure out this backtrack/pingback stuff. If you’re having trouble with your blog in these areas, check out these websites:

http://redalt.com/External/pingomation.php
( A site for testing incoming/outgoing trackbacks and pingbacks. This one is nice because it shows you the debugging XML. )

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/
( A test blog, where you can make your own posts and see how your trackbacks work on another blog. )

http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/
( A nice site for sending trackbacks manually. You can use this to send a trackback to another site if your trackbacks aren’t working. )

http://www.aylwardfamily.com/content/tbping.asp
( Similar to the site listed above. Shows you the debug XML afterwards. )