Terry

I just removed pingomatic from wordpress (leaving the space blank) and chose to do all pinging through Feedburner. You can leave pingomatic in wp though and just not check that option in Feedburner.

I’m letting feedburner handle it all because it didn’t seem like wp was pinging the timestamped posts for me.

I decided to do that hack with two different web host accounts so that the cron is hit every 30 mins. Just in case one host goes down then I’m still covered. Wicked :P.

But I found that these new posts weren’t sending Pings, from what I could tell at least. I activated Feedburner’s PingShot and things are golden again.

Duct tape and bubblegum holding this blog together–but it’s working! Thanks again :).

jonlandrum you have saved me. I’m not kidding — I was waking up every three hours just to push the “publish” button ;).

I had to adjust the hack a bit. This host I’m on doesn’t have cPanel so I have to work with Putty and SSH — and I don’t know what the heck I’m doing, lol. I tried every which way and the crontabs seemed to stick and looked really good (when I did crontab -l), but the posts wouldn’t publish. So this is what I ended up doing:

Using another hosting account I have (with cpanel) and setup this command in the crontab:

/usr/bin/wget -O – -q http: //blogdomain.com/wp-cron.php

And it works! ::sob::

Thanks so much for sharing the ‘fix’, this will enable me to get a full night’s sleep again :).

**Edit: To use this, remove the space between the https:// above, I had to add it so the link wouldn’t be live.

Thanks for that jonlandrum, if I find a workaround I’ll post it in here too. I’m not very techy so any method I come up with will probably be clunky–but if it gets the job done I’ll post it. Not having much luck so far though.

Quick question: Is there somewhere that I should report this bug so it will be addressed? Or is this it?

Also if anyone has found a workaround or even a piece of software to buy that will post future posts, please let me know–I’d very much appreciate it. I’m up the creek without timestamp and I can’t move to another host for a variety of reasons.

you are using a wordpress plugin to block referer spam? good God, what has the world come to.

What were you suggesting here? That we’re brainiacs or idiots?

Edit: I’m done in here for the day. Have a good one :).

Whatever whooami, carry on. And FYI your htaccess suggestion is helpful, I was just saying it’s too bad you chose to talk to us the way you did.

So now, wqhen I browse my own site, I get a blank page only. Maybe my internal IP is not reverse lookup-able or something?

Not a good thing! lol. I’m tapped out for ideas mwillems, sorry.

mwillems is it the very first line in the index.php? Sorry if it’s obvious, just that’s the only thing I can think of.

Thank you whooami for doing your best to make us feel like idiots.

mwillems is just asking for ideas and I’m just suggesting what I can.

Have a nice day spreading more joy in the world :).

No it should show immediately. Hmmm, I’m out of ideas. You can block each url or IP in htaccess, but that’s not going to help since they switch up all the time.

Quick Question, did you add this to the index.php file:

<? php include_once (“/home/host/public_html/wp-content/referrer-karma.php”); check_referrer(); ?>

That’s added to the main wordpress index.php, not the theme index.php

Black and orange lines show what’s been blocked, the green shows what’s been allowed. To add something to the black list (or vice versa), switch to the other page and toggle the url to the list you want it handled (the black list/or white list).

Good luck!

Did you follow steps 2, 3 and 4 precisely? It sounds like you missed the true/check page/then switch back to false step.

I could be wrong, it’s been a loooong time since I’ve set it up (I’m sure it’s been 2+ years that I’ve used it).

Good luck with it, I’m very confident in the script myself and has kept a lot of bad boys out of my hair :).

I’d still try it, the script may catch them anyway so you won’t have to add them manually.

It’s a referrer spam attack.

Edit:

I do use this on one blog and it catches the vast majority of them for me.

You can try this:

https://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/

If it doesn’t automatically block them, you can manually add the url in the blacklist.

See: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/123083?replies=2