timhickey

You would have to see the whole explanation, but the pings from that code would not be from me, they would be from visitors. I guess basically saying they visited the site. I need to read into it some more to make sure it is even something I want to do, just wanted to figure out how to do it in case I do.

So you saying if the footer.php file has the </body> tag the single.php file will not?

Thanks for the information and help!

Here are the directions and the code for a dynamic IP is below. There is a different code for static IPs.

Visitor Auto‐Ping:

Place this code in your “footer.php” file in your WordPress
template and find the spot just above the </body> tag. If you
don’t have a footer.php find where your posts and pages are
loaded and where the </body> tag is located in your template.

For other CMS systems and static sites you may have to adapt
accordingly and place this code above your templates or pages
</body> tag.

Also, please note that the line highlighted in blue should all be
one line of code and has to be broken down into multiple lines
due to the page width. We have also included this in the file
“Visitor Auto Ping.txt” so that you can copy and paste it easily and
have included the code here just for illustrative purposes.

If you don’t have a static IP address then use this:

<?php
if (is_single()){
$link=”https://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=&#8221;.get_the_title().
“&blogurl=”.get_permalink().”&rssurl=”.get_bloginfo_rss(‘rs
s2_url’).”&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on
&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_feed
ster=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&c
hk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_web
logalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=
on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on”;
?>
<iframe src=”<?php echo $link; ?>” border=”0″
scrolling=”no”
style=”border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;”></iframe>
<?} ?>

The code is for auto-pinging. The directions say to insert it in the footer.php file, but it also mentions the single.php file, then it says if there is no footer.php file(and I imagine single.php file), add the code to the file which posts are created from.

I inserted it on the footer.php file but was wondering if there is a way I can test the auto-pinging, or see if it is working. It is supposed to ping every time a visitor visits a post/page.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tim

Sorry, I was trying to think of something more descriptive and starting writing the body and forgot to add to the title.

Isn’t the footer.php file used at the bottom of posts? Is there way I can tell? Maybe somewhere in the source code (which I gave a quick look but did not know what I was looking for).

If the footer.php file is used for each post and I add to the footer.php file how should I handle prior posts which were posted before I changed the footer.php file? Do I need to update them, or I wanted to edit the tags and font, will doing this and updating use the new footer.php file (if it is used)?

Thanks,

Tim

The errors in the feed are self-explanatory

I looked at the results, I didn’t realize they were from my site.

I am not to familiar with HTML. The first issue was about iframe. All I didd was puut a URL in a post and linkeid to the page, I didn’t do anything involving HTML. Do you have any suggestions how to fix it or know where I can go to find information on it?

Another one was on the object tag, which I copied the embed tag from photobucket and I guess that was in it.

The second to last issue, if you look at the two lines beneath it they are the same but are not highlighted, so I am not sure why one line would be an isssue andd the other two are not.

The last issue mentions it could be dangerous. I have no idea why.

This is very confusing. I only use the dashboard and the controls on it, so not sure why all the issues.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Tim

P.S. Do you have any WP people you can recommend to help me with any issues? I need some code inserted and a header and opt-in box made..as well as a new template.

Do I need to do something in WordPress to have it validated or is the feed automatically live when the blog goes live? I just went to feburner and it burnt a feed, but the aggregator I want to use says to turn off feedburner.

I do need to add an RSS button and I link that to the URL I posted above, correct?

Sorry, new to ll of this RSS stuff, trying to figure it all out.

Thanks,

Tim

I spoke to the hosting company and they told me how to restore it to the previous day. I though I would lose everything but I did not, all of the work I did was still there.

I did post a couple of other questions but have no had any replies. Any suggestions as to how I get a response? The hosting company does not support WordPress and referred me here. I am new to all of this and am trying to do as much as I can myself but I am stuck.

Thanks,

Tim