30 Dec, 2007
Wordpress Tip: Using Feedburner to ping
Posted by: admin In: Uncategorized
A problem for many more experienced users when using Wordpress is that the pinging system where you ping repositories with information that you have new information is very very slow.
There are several plugins out there that takes out the pinging process after each blog post, and runs it in the background instead, but this solution was not working properly on several of my sites I tested on a while back.
The solution is to sign up for Feedburner (which you should anyway). Feedburner does wonders for your RSS feed for your blogs, and after Google bought the company, all the very cool features are now free of charge for everyone.
A major cool thing with Feedburner is that it per default checks your feed for updates every 30 minutes, and then it can ping for you!
After you have signed up for Feedburner and burned your feed, under Optimize, you can setup a little thing called Pingshot. It is not enabled per default, but go straight ahead and enable it. You can sign up for a few default ping-services, and then choose up to 5 other additional services. I usually choose 5 at random, in my experience it does not really matter which you choose.
The benefit of this solution is that it speeds up the process and the strain on your server if you have a few sites that are automatically updated using Feedwordpress, WP-O-matic, WP-SmartRSS or any other you choose to use.
If you run the update process a few times a day it would be just fine, but if you gain 50+ posts every time you run the job, it will be 50+ pings to the sites, and that will put you in the spam folder really quick. Feedburner will only ping once every 30 minutes they find something that has changed in your feed.
This solution helps you on several fronts, it takes out the potential ban if you ping the webservices
- It does not potentially ban your site for spamming/over-pinging
- It reduces the strain on your site/server when updating often/many posts per update
Do you have any Wordpress tips? Share away in the comments.
