Friday, July 25, 2003

Still trying to get at least one TrackBack to show up on this weblog. 10:20:32 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Testing against WebDog for TrackBack 7:21:38 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

The next beta release of TrackBack for Radio is ready for testing. This version includes support for inbound TrackBack pings, various bug fixes, a new prefs page for configuring TrackBack, and a field on the desktop website home page for entering URLs of posts you'd like to ping manually. We'd appreciate your help testing. *** How to test: 1. Download the following file, and import it into Radio using the Open command in Radio's File menu, clicking OK to all confirmation dialogs: http://jake.userland.com/gems/trackbackForRadio04.fttb 2. In the window that opens, there's a script named install. Run the script. 3. Open the TrackBack prefs page in your web browser, and check the boxes to enable TrackBack, and to add a TrackBack link to your weblog posts. Don't forget to click the Submit button...: http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=2.17 4. Go to the Item Template prefs page in the Desktop Website, and add a trackbackLink macro to the template, where you'd like the link to your TrackBack pop-up window to appear: http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=3.4 The macro should look like this: <%trackbackLink%> 4. Create a new post that links to a post in a site which supports TrackBack, and post it to your home page. Radio will attempt to send an outgoing ping to the post you linked to. If the site has a way to display TrackBack pings, verify that the ping was received by the linked site. Here are a couple of posts you can test with: http://jake.userland.com/2003/07/23.html#a843 http://backend.userland.com/2003/07/16#a413 5. Verify that incoming TrackBack pings are working: Create another new post which links to a post in your own site, and verify that the TrackBack ping was send, by clicking the TrackBack link next to the post you linked to. If you have another site which supports outbound TrackBack pings, create a post in that site which links to, or sends a TrackBack ping to a post in your Radio site. Again, click the TrackBack link next to the linked post in your Radio site to verify that the ping was received. 6. Send an email to radio-dev to let us know that it worked. If it didn't work, let us know what you did (in as much detail as possible), what you expected to happen, and what actually happened, along with any error messages you may have seen. *** Notes Note that this beta release will only work for incoming TrackBack pings if your copy of Radio is connected to UserLand's community server, and one of UserLand's comments servers (either radiocomments.userland.com or radiocomments2.userland.com). Since the server-side parts of the feature have not yet been released, copies of Radio which are connected to the Salon Blogs server or other instances of RCS will not be able to receive incoming TrackBack pings. (You can still send outbound pings.) If your copy of Radio is connected to Phillip Pearson's PyCS, you should be able to receive incoming TrackBack pings, as well as sending pings, but this has not yet been tested. 7:09:04 AM    trackback []     Articulate []