Plugin: Smart Update Pinger

  • Smart Update Pinger replaces the built-in update ping functionality. Instead of always pinging when saving a post, the plugin only pings when the post has not previously been published. Edits of posts are “silent”, in contrast with the default behaviour.

    Download it here.

    Motivation: When you edit an older post and ping a service, the service either shows your blog’s URL or the latest post’s URL. Never the edited post’s—unless it is the latest, of course. This is misleading and could even get you banned for pingspamming, unless you’re careful.

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  • This should be the default IMO.

    Agreed.

    Sweet! It works! You the man!

    Just installed it. Thanks! ??

    However, why ping when saving a draft? The blog itself hasn’t been updated according to the outside world…

    Thread Starter cyner

    (@cyner)

    I sure hope it doesn’t ping when *saving* the draft! It’s only supposed to ping when you later choose to *publish* a draft. Please let me know if I’m wrong.

    Thread Starter cyner

    (@cyner)

    I have just tested it, and it doesn’t ping when saving drafts — at least not for me. But the text in the options panel wasn’t too clear on this, so I changed that for the new version.

    Version 1.2 enables pinging as soon as the plugin is activated. Before, you had to open the settings page to enable it the first time. Besides that there shouldn’t be any noticeable changes.

    I love the idea behind this plugin, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I just tried pinging several services and at the end of my list of URLs to ping, I got the following error message:

    could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”

    Any suggestions of what to do about this?

    Is it compatible with XMLRPC editors? I use and external editor to make Posts.

    Thread Starter cyner

    (@cyner)

    The error messages are copied verbatim from WordPress’ default ping functionality, and they are almost useless for the end user. An alternative would be to replace the ping class with a better one, but I’m hoping the WP crew will understand that this is long overdue.

    Posting from external tools with APIs such as XMLRPC is not tested, and probably doesn’t work. But give it a try, and have a look at the logs in the options page.

    BTW, development of this plugin is halted. I, the author, have stopped using WordPress, and will not maintain or further develop the plugin. It’s in the public domain, though, so I trust the community to improve it.

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