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Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:43:31 -0000

Cool.. I was wondering how in the world that happened. I guess I should read the fine manual, eh? :)

Re: Underscores make a difference

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:08:00 -0000

Tom,

It looks like that your blog, like mine, is on wordpress. Wordpress supports "pingbacks" and "trackbacks". That means, whenever your post has a link to another blog, wordpress tries to send a ping to that other blog. If the linked blog supports pinging, your post will usually appear in the comment section as it did here.

In wordpress there are two places where you can control this:

1. WP admin --> Options --> Discussions: "Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)" and "Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)". I have them both checked on my blog.

2. WP admin --> Write --> Write Post: "Allow Pings". I also have this one checked by default.

Hope this helps.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:48:20 -0000

So tell me, how does this article know I linked to you? I'm ignorant on all blog technology it seems.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:08:55 -0000

Good stuff! My copy of the book is on its way. Lucky for me, an Amazon.com distribution center is down the road. Shame they don't allow pick-ups.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Eddie Awad — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:34:33 -0000

Tom, hopefully I won't find any additional errata, but if I do I'll make sure I e-mail you about it.

Thank you for this great book.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Thomas Kyte — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:37:04 -0000

Eddie -- thanks, in the future you can drop me an email too. I file the errata and it'll get subsequent prints fixed.