Auto Ping PPS WordPress Plugin

Project Petaling Street is a Malaysian Blog Aggregator. The site allows users to “ping” the site and have blog posts appear on the site. This plugin for WordPress automatically pings the site whenever a post is published. The plugin has only been tested with WordPress 2.7.1.

Download

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Current Version: 0.3
Compatibility: WordPress 2.7.1

Installation

1. Download the plugin zipfile (above).
2. Extract the files in the zipfile.
3. Upload ‘auto-ping-pps.php’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
5. That’s it! The plugin is now ready to be configured for use.

Configuration

After activating the plugin, the plugin will add a settings page under the ‘Settings’ menu. There is only one option which can be set, the ping URL.

Auto Ping PPS Options

Enter in the ping URL provided to you. The ping URL can be obtained using instructions found here (bottom of the page).

There are also two default options:

1. Check ping PPS option for new posts – Checking this option will check the ping PPS option by default for all new posts.
2. Uncheck ping PPS option for posts that has already been used to ping - Checking this option will uncheck the ping PPS option by default for posts that has already been used to ping.

Usage

Once the plugin has been configured with the ping URL, the post editing screen will have a checkbox option to ping PPS.

Ping PPS Options

Check the ping PPS option to assign the post to ping PPS whenever the post is published. For scheduled posts, the plugin will ping PPS at the same time the post is scheduled to be published. If you wish you can also specify a custom excerpt to use when pinging PPS (instead of using the first 255 characters of the post) to give the post a better description.

Scheduling a Ping

For published or scheduled to be published posts, you can also schedule a ping to happen at a specified time. You can see the full list of scheduled pings in the settings page. You will also be able to cancel any scheduled pings from there.

Known Issues

• Post autosave does not save the ping option so if you changed the ping option, make sure you save the post manually.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

To report a bug or request a new feature, please use the contact form.

Changelog

0.3 (23/3/2009)

• Now has ability to specify custom excerpt to ping
• Now has ability to schedule a ping separately from the time the post is published

0.2 (11/3/2009)

• Now stores option to ping or not for each individual post
• Now works with post scheduling, will ping at same time a scheduled post is published
• Stores number of times each post has been used to ping PPS
• Added option to ping (or not) by default for new posts
• Added option to ping (or not) by default for posts that has already been used to ping (when updating published posts)

0.1 (9/3/2009)

• Initial release.