The usefulness of trackbacks in WordPress is widely knows and so I’m not going to ramble about it. The objective here is to share the php function that can add “Trackback URL” anywhere in your post. Some themes are not pre-installed with it. Adding this function will result in trackback links appearing in all of your posts so that your readers can use them easily. The position of the text (of the link) is, of course, at your discretion.

In your wordpress go to the theme editor section and select the single-post file, which is to be appended with a small chunk of code. Please make sure that you have a back-up of your file before making any changes.

In the single-post(.php) file, add the following line of code at the place where you wish the link to the trackback URL to appear on your posts.

<a href=”<?php trackback_url() ?>” rel=”trackback” title=”Trackback URL<?php trackback_url(); ?>”>Trackback URL</a>

Save the file and you’re done!