1. Define some terms: client - that part of the plugin, which scans your news item for links and pings them server - that part of the plugin, which receives pings and displays them on your site source - the article, that contains links, which will be pinged target - the article, which will be pinged (the source contains a link to it)
2. Configuration It's separated in two sections - server and client 1) client First setting is about whether the client is active, if not, your news items won't be scanned and pings won't be sent. Page request size is meant to limit the size of requested page when the client is searching the target for proper header or link tag, which will indicate that the target is pingback enabled and will provide the client with address of the target's pingback server. Links type tells the client which links to get when scanning the source. BB code means, the client will get only links posted with the [ pbl ] bb code, the only links that will be pinged All means, the client will look for links with [ link ], [ pbl ] bb codes and the html tag - < a href='..... Next version will support plain urls too.
2) server server active: if your server is off, you won't receive pings and the already received ones will not show on your pages. clients will get a fault code - 49 the second setting is for checking the source, it's strongly recommended thet this is 'Yes', if you don't check the source, there will be a lot of spam. next is again page request size, but this time for the server, when checking the source for link to the target. Next setting controls where the pings (links to the pages that have a link to your article) will be shown. Options are: { PBS } shorcode, menu, both, or none (nowhere). This is the time you have to learn when are the pings shown and how to work with the shortcode. Generally, received pings are shown only on pingback enabled pages, the ones that can receive pings, these are: /news.php?item.news_id.cat_id /news.php?extend.news_id.cat_id /comment.php?comment.news.news_id With the shortcode you can display the pings on other pages, but you have to provide the news item id, and write the shortcode this way - { PBS=news,news_id } The last two settings are about limiting the displayed chars for a link in the menu and with the shortcode
3. Final words 1) the client will scan for links when creating a news item and when updating old one, the client will search in the extended field too. 2) client and server are recording every ping, so no duplicate pings will be sent or received
It's possible I missed something here so, ask me if anything is unclear and will update this thread.
