If your WordPress blog does not appear to be accepting pingbacks, if pingbacks are not appearing in your comment section or comment moderation queue you could be having the same issue I was having with a blog this evening.

It turned out the issue was not with receiving pingbacks as such, it was that there was some kind of conflict going on with a plugin I had installed but never really used - the Adhesive plugin.

It’s a nice plugin that allows you to make a post ’sticky’ - that post will stay at the top of the page even if you post a more recent post.

But it seems that the plugin stops incoming pingbacks. Trackbacks will come in and work fine, but pingbacks will never appear. As soon as I disabled the Adhesive plugin pingbacks worked fine.

It took me a while to figure out, so I hope this post saves at least a couple of people the testing time I spent tonight!

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