As WordPress 2.0.1 ironed out most of the bugs that were bothering me on this site, I have finally moved my main blog, How to Blog - Blogging tips, tricks, themes, tutorials, and more, away from the spammy hell of TypePad to it’s own domain at http://www.emilyrobbins.com/how-to-blog/ and is now running on Wordpress 2.0.2
Same setup as in the previous post, except now we’re going to see how it handles sending autodiscovery pings (like to that article and to this post of mine on wordpress.com), while simultaneously sending manual trackbacks out, as well.
Results:
Trackbacks revisited.
Okay, we’ve already discovered that the auto-notify feature isn’t working properly to send a single trackback ping to any article you reference in a wordpress 2.0.1 post.
But what about those that you manually send (and receive)?
In the Options|Discussion tab, we’re presented with a checkbox that says, “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)”
What that means is that for any article linked to in a particular post, wordpress should automatically be sending a ping to alert that article that you’ve written about them, saving you the time of having to manually paste their trackback URI into the Trackbacks section of the Write Post screen.
Sorry to the blogs who got multiple trackback pings from me. It’s not me. It’s WordPress 2.0.1 auto-discovery trackback sending duplicate pings.
So far the results have shown:
no trackback ping sent to my wordpress 1.5.2 blog
2 duplicate auto-pings sent to someone else’s wordpress 2.0 blog
I’m going to REtest the sending of an ‘auto-discovery trackback’ to a typepad blog, a wordpress.com blog, a WP 1.5.2 blog, and a WP 2.0.1 blog using the new wordpress 2.0.1, as well as send some manual trackback pings at the same time, and will then report the results..
That’s how long it took to publish my last post. Yet WordPress still claims 0.12 seconds. Now the question remains whether this has to do with upgrading WP 2.0 to 2.0.1, or if this is a problem even for fresh installs of 2.0.1 (which I haven’t yet done - anyone else?)
While it didn’t take quite as long as the first post to publish, it still took longer than it previously had (and again, we’re talking about posts with no trackbacks or pings). I need a stopwatch so I can really tell exactly how long it’s taking to publish my posts, but I’m disappointed that things have slowed down a bit in the WordPress publishing process.
My last post had no trackbacks in it (or links to ping), and was my first post created using WP 2.0.1. When I clicked the publish button, instead of the lightening fast response I’ve grown to love with wordpress 2.0, it took a really long time for it to publish the page. Not only that, but WordPress then lied to me and told me (on the bottom of the page) that the processing time was 0.11 seconds. Try closer to a full minute.
I’m pleased to report that WordPress 2.0.1 is out and that the upgrade on this test blog from 2.0 to 2.0.1 was a piece of cake to do.
Purportedly, some of the many bugfixes that were included in 2.0.1 address the trackback issues that I and many others have been experiencing (which was the major reason I hadn’t upgraded my other blogs to wordpress 2.0).
