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.

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Deleting a ping from the list is done exactly the same way as deleting comments.

1.	Click the Delete check box next to each ping you want to delete.
2.	Click the Delete Checked button.
3.	A confirmation pop-up like the one in Figure 16.15 will appear to make sure you really want to delete the ping(s) you selected. Click the Delete button to confirm the deletion, or Cancel if you change your mind. Figure 16.15. Be sure you really want to delete all the pings you selected before clicking Delete. [View full size image]
4.	Finish by rebuilding your site to remove the deleted pings completely.

And that's about all you can do with TrackBack pings in the administration interface.