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Implementing Trackback for Radio Userland in 3 easy steps

Paolo was wondering whether we could setup the standalone Trackback server and use it to implement trackbacks for Radio Userland.  It turns out (as this post proves) that the answer is yes!  All that was required was to install the CGI and then write a macro for Radio Userland and embed it in the #itemTemplate.txt.

The macro is supplying the RDF metadata that Trackback depends upon.  In order to allow the standalone trackback server to serve multiple blogs I have added a unique prefix (in my case @matt.blogs.it) to the unique post ID's supplied to the trackback server.

Trackbacks data in RSS?

I'd like an easy way to ping a trackbackable item when I post in Radio.  It seems to me that the easiest way to achieve this would be to have the trackback id embedded in the RSS item (much like the GUID is).  This would allow me to pre-load the URL to ping when posting a commentary on an item.

Has someone already come up with an extension for doing this?

Update

My thanks to Phil Ringnalda who sent me the link to the trackback module for RSS which provides a way to associate the trackback ping url with an item in a feed.  Exactly what I was looking for!  However when I checked my copy of MovableType I notice that the module is not used by either the 1.0 or 2.0 templates (at least as of 2.63).

What gives?