Managing Received TrackBack Pings

Now that your site is pulling in TrackBack pings from all your readers with sites of their own, we should take a look at Movable Type's limited features for managing pings. I say “limited” because basically the only thing you can do with them is delete them.

When you activate the Allow Pings setting for an entry, a new block of controls, under the heading Manage TrackBack Pings, is added to the Edit Entry screen. Figure 16.14 shows this new block just below the Edit Comments section.

Figure 16.14. As TrackBack pings come in for an entry they're added to this list.

Deleting a ping from the ...

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