Avoid Being Inadvertently Banned By Pinging Services For Too Many Updates
WordPress pings the Pinging Services every time you create and a post and every time you update one. This is a problem if you editing your published posts a lot. It is possible Pinging Services may blacklist your site which would not be good. Also another undesirable feature in the WordPress pinging algorithm is that it pings when you create a post with a future publish date, instead of pinging when the publishing actually takes place.
Ping only on Publishing
The wordpress plugin called the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger solves these problems.
Its features are:
- Ping Services are only pinged when a new post is published and not when an existing post is edited
- For future posts, services are only pinged when the post has appeared on your blog
- Has an extended ping feature which pings using the new URL instead of the homepage URL resulting in a higher quality ping
- It has a ‘Ping services now’ function which you can use to check that it is working correctly.
- It displays your ping log with newest entries first
Installing the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger
After installing the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger, make sure you remember to change your file security settings so the web server can write to the log file, ultimate-plugins-smart-update-pinger.log.
You can do this by a “chmod 666″ or by a “chgrp nobody” followed by a “chmod 664″ on the log file using shell access or by granting ‘write’ access through your FTP client.
After activation the plugin, go to Settings and set up and test the plugin. I disabled detailed logging to save disk space and then tested it using the ‘Ping Now’ button. This proved that it was working as shown below.
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Hi Russell – You need to do a post as well about using pingomatic alongside a number of other ping services, and also feedburner. It’s possible people are over-pinging.