Discussion Topic: Does this mean that the content I discuss here will know about it?
Up one levelI curious about how this works, and maybe a little confused. If I add a link here to some content in one of the sites using knotes, will the content I link to 'know about' it?
This can get a bit confusing... Let's say I add a link in a discussion item, pointing to some content in this site. Will that content 'know' that I've pointed to it from a discussion? Will it show a link back to what I wrote?
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The short answer is 'yes'. We went to a lot of trouble to make sure that discussions in the knotes system 'play well' in the world of trackbacks.
Yes. If you add a link to a discussion item, the knotes system will try to send a 'trackback ping' to the content that you linked to. That means that, if the content knows what to do with a ping, it will know about your link, and may decide to display some reference to it.
What kind of content is 'trackback aware'?
- Any content in our own sites, or other Plone/CMF sites using knotes
- The knotes system, when installed in a Plone or CMF site, makes all the content in that site trackback aware. That includes discussion items and blog entries, of course, but it also includes any other kind of content that may be available in those sites. For instance, see the target of the link I have added to this post.
- Weblogs
- Almost all web-logging systems respect the trackback standards, and will receive the trackback pings from your discussions. Some users' blogs may have turned this off, perhaps only for particular posts.
- Other systems
- There may be other systems out there which implement trackback awareness for their content. I suspect that this will become more common, especially within e-learning content. It is doubtful that very high-traffic sites, which get a lot of inward links (google, for instance), would want to make their main content trackback aware, but for many other kinds of content it can add a lot of value.
Resources and Links:
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An example of trackback to normal site content
- This link points to some site content in a knotes/Plone site... in fact it is our own site, and the content will be the prodcut description for knotes when it is written :O) You should see a link back to this item from there.
