WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release Upgrade Broke Pinged Trackback Status

This blog was upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5 two days ago. As with every upgrade, there is this fear of something not working afterwards. Indeed, something broke! The trackback links to Project Petaling Street that were pinged were not moved to the “Already pinged” section below the trackback input box after the upgrade. The link stays in the trackback input box. I hope this issue will be resolved in WordPress 2.9. Other than that, everything else seems to be working just fine.

WordPress 2.8.4 Solved Trackback and Pingback Issues

I have been complaining about how trackbacks and pingbacks were not working after I upgraded from WordPress 2.6.5 to WordPress 2.7. The same problem cropped up when I upgraded to WordPress 2.8. Because of that issue, I was stuck with 2.6.5 for a while.

A few weeks back, when WordPress 2.8.4 was released, I tried my luck and upgraded to the latest version, yet again. At the same time I was anticipating the same problem with previous upgrades. To my surprise, trackbacks and pingbacks worked like a charm.

What I did was upgrade to the latest version from the Dashboard instead of downloading the compressed file from the WordPress website, unzipping it and then uploading to the server. That was what I usually did. Moreover, all that was needed in upgrading from the Dashboard was just one simple mouse click. I am a happy camper once again!