Pingbacks Aren't Only for Blogs

 After writing up about adding pingbacks to blogs, I realised that there could be an additional area where pingbacks would be quite useful -- message boards.  So, with a few changes in code, 6.0 will be coming with a new feature that allows messages to post pingbacks to any blogs (or any other pingback consumer).

So, when you post a message that contains a URL to any pingback consumer:

Then, a few minutes later, it appears in the blog:

As usual, this can be disabled for the site or each particular message.

[Jonas Yuan]

Very nice! Thank you, Alex.