Wordpress Lets You Do That?

The below text is a definition from Wikipedia:

“A TrackBack is a mechanism used for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack Ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.”

The main use of a Track Back is to utilise it for posting comments on other peoples blogs, and also for promoting your own articles. If there is related content between blogs, it helps distribution of participating bloggers content.

How To Enable Track Back:

1. Login to your WordPress Admin Panel and navigate to the Options -> discussion section.
2. Check the option to Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)
3. Click Update Options

How to Trackback:

Using Trackbacks in WordPress is pretty easy to use. When writing a post, simply copy the permalink of the post you want to trackback to into the trackback section. Also, you can just link to a permalink within the content of your posts and a trackback will be achieved.

Another little hidden gem that may just give you that little bit more of an advantage.

In the default Kubrick Wordpress template, it is set up so that your sidebar only shows on your index.php page. If you are monetising your blog, then you will want your affiliate banners to show on every page and every post.

A common thing that may happen, is that a  post of yours will show up on page one of Google for a particular keyword. Unless this was your latest post, visitors won’t see any affiliate banners you may have down the side of your page.

There is a way around this, but it is a little technical.

1. The first step is to login to your administration panel.
2. Click the Design tab from the admin navigation menu.
3. Select the Theme Editor tab from the administration sub-menu.
4. Now select the WordPress default theme within the theme editor window from the drop down menu under themes to edit.
5. Find and select the single post theme file (single.php) from the Wordpress default theme files to the right. You should now see Editing single.php at the top of the theme editor.
6. Near the top of the file, find where it says:
   

   <div id="content" class="widecolumn">

7. Change widecolumn to narrowcolumn so the code looks like the following:
   

   <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

8. Now scroll down to the bottom of the file and find where it says:
   

   <?php get_footer(); ?>

9. Directly above this add the following:
   

   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

10. Your final entry at the end of the single.php file should look like this:
    

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    <?php get_footer(); ?>

11. Once edited, simply click the update file button at the bottom right and go view your site. You should now have a sidebar on your post pages.

In many themes that you upload to your server to use, this may have already been done for you. Many people do like to use the clean lines of the Kubrick template though, and this little trick makes your blog have that much more advertising space on it.