Are there any ping.fm wordpress plugins that work?

13 years ago

I don't know about a plug-in, but you don't need one.

Go to your Wordpress dashboard, and under "Settings" click "Writing".

At the bottom of the screen you will see that you can add ping sites to automatically ping each time you publish a post. (Update Services)

Each time you post to your blog it pings those ping services, and this even works on auto-blogs.

Open a new tab and go to pingler.com Copy their ping list, go back to your own "Update Services" under "Writing", and past that list in.

I can't see why anyone would build a plug-in when this is so simple.

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jasonmorgan

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey

I don't know about a plug-in, but you don't need one.

Go to your Wordpress dashboard, and under "Settings" click "Writing".

At the bottom of the screen you will see that you can add ping sites to automatically ping each time you publish a post. (Update Services)

Each time you post to your blog it pings those ping services, and this even works on auto-blogs.

Open a new tab and go to pingler.com Copy their ping list, go back to your own "Update Services" under "Writing", and past that list in.

I can't see why anyone would build a plug-in when this is so simple.

Cheers,
Colin Palfrey

I think you may be confused about what ping.fm is and does. It's not a ping service.

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mjacob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by mattward

Does anyone know of any that are working right now?

Have you tried my plugin yet? Instead of posting TO Ping.fm FROM your blog, you post FROM Ping.fm TO your blog (like every other network type supported by Ping.fm). It works great with WordPress 3.0.1 and Ping.fm's Custom URL feature.

I can't post links yet, but here's the URL:

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pingfm-custom-url-status-updates/

Matt

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PicktownChris

13 years ago

mattward, any luck on finding one that works?... I am running into the same problem...

Colin, you are mistaking ping.fm with regular pinging...they are two completely different things...

mjacob, your idea doesn't work for autoblogs which is what I am guessing most people would want a working plugin of this for...

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mjacob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by PicktownChris

mjacob, your idea doesn't work for autoblogs which is what I am guessing most people would want a working plugin of this for...

I don't know what an autoblog is, but there are ways that you can schedule posts to Ping.fm. Ideally, the way that Ping.fm works is that you post to it, and it posts to everything else for you. I tried to follow that model when designing my WordPress plugin.

Matt

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Piper Anderson

13 years ago

I've tried using the Publish to Ping.fm plugin to automatically generate some backlinks to my sites. However, I've discovered that that particular plugin totally disables access to WP Robot and ReviewAzon (two plugins I use a lot). So, to use Publish to Ping.fm, I have to first set up everything in WP Robot and ReviewAzon and get them going, and THEN add the Publish to Ping.fm plugin, or else when I try to access the WP Robot and ReviewAzon plugins, I get a message saying "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page."

So I guess the moral of the story is that Publish to Ping.fm works as a plugin, you just have to make sure it's not interfering with any of your other plugins.

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chelle60

13 years ago

Ideally... if you step back far enough and look at the perspective of the person who has to generate the content, and who happens to write ON the blog, we'd rather write our article in Wordpress and then have it pinged, via Ping.FM to all our other services. We don't want to have to go to ping.fm to generate the content itself, which has no publishing tools (like formatting and image importing) to write the blog articles.

I'm in the same boat everyone else using newer WP installations is in - the previously working ping.fm plugins no longer work and dev keys are disabled, or the plugins interfere with newer tools.

Has anyone had any luck locating a plugin that actually still works?

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mjacob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by chelle60

Ideally... if you step back far enough and look at the perspective of the person who has to generate the content, and who happens to write ON the blog, we'd rather write our article in Wordpress and then have it pinged, via Ping.FM to all our other services. We don't want to have to go to ping.fm to generate the content itself, which has no publishing tools (like formatting and image importing) to write the blog articles.

Sure, and I get that. I guess the fundamental difference is that I designed my plugin for the way I use Ping.fm, and for thousands of other users, apparently they use it the same way. I suppose I could extend my plugin to also post from WordPress to Ping.fm, but there's no incentive for me to do that.

Matt

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DynamicIMS

13 years ago

mjacob: you could get donations! lol

I am with the others, I want to go to wordpress and do all my work there and have it go everywhere else. how does your plugin handle photos and video? w

can you align and arrange the post so that it will appear properly in wordpress?

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mjacob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by DynamicIMS

I am with the others, I want to go to wordpress and do all my work there and have it go everywhere else. how does your plugin handle photos and video? can you align and arrange the post so that it will appear properly in wordpress?

Money is a good motivator. If someone wanted to bankroll the development cost, I'd absolutely do it.

Photos sent via Ping.fm are downloaded to your server and inserted into the WordPress media library. It's pretty slick. Haven't tested any video content, but AFAIK, Ping.fm sends any HTML straight through to the services. So you could embed a YouTube video or use whatever kind of formatting you want on the Ping.fm side, and it *should* all come through as straight HTML.

Matt

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mikebrooks

13 years ago

Colin, for those of us who write to our blogs, that's a pretty cool piece of info. thanks!

Looks like you will need to add the http:// to the Pingler link.

Going to make a how to video on this and post to my blog. Seems like a pretty good thing to do.

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azad

13 years ago

I am using wordpress.org/extend/plugins/publish-2-pingfm/ at my blog. the only problem is that it post again to ping.fm when you update your blog post.

hope this helps.

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kodeexii

13 years ago

Salam n Hola All..

Has anyone tried out the RSS Feed option in Ping.FM? If it works then we could use the wordpress rss feed as source for Ping.FM. Tried on my account, somehow it just hangs when I entered the feed url..

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IBRevolution 12 years ago

A better method is to add your rss feed to google feeder and then add the Google feed username to your Ping fm account. This way your blog feed will be auto ping.fm-ed to your accounts together with the (related) blog feeds you are subscribed to and this will create a more natural link profile on these social bookmarking accounts. But they will most likely have the same time stamp which could be bad.
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- tanker6actual 12 years ago
  
  You can do it via a free Hootsuite account. Thats how I run it on several blogs. Tutorial is done by Brian Wong. It's automagic once it's set up. Google it as I can't post links yet.
  
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  milescatlett 12 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  Please try this:
  
  Download the Publish 2 Ping.fm plugin so that you can open the individual files (ftp).
  
  Open up the file called "admin.php" in the folder called "php" with notepad or an html editor.
  
  Find the code that says:
  
  Code:
  
  $page = add_submenu_page('options-general.php', 'Publish 2 Ping.fm-Settings', 'Publish 2 Ping.fm', 9, basename(__FILE__), array(&$this, 'printAdminPage'));
  
  and replace it with this:
  
  Code:
  
  $page = add_submenu_page('options-general.php', 'Publish 2 Ping.fm-Settings', 'Publish 2 Ping.fm', 9, __FILE__, array(&$this, 'printAdminPage'));
  
  Or you can delete "basename" and the parentheses around "__FILE__"
  
  This allowed me to use my other plugin's submenus (such as Wordpress SEO by Yoast) without getting the "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." error.
  
  Try that and see if it works!
  
  Miles
  
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joekane

12 years ago

You can do it by using hootsuite. Here's some instructions...

brianwong.com/blog/howto-hootsuite-pingfm-wordpress-socialmedia/

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webmarke

12 years ago

Ping.fm has a way you can autopost your blog without a plugin.

That is..when it works....

When you login to Ping.fm scroll down under post section and you should see
Services / Tools

Under that you should see a button where you can add your rss feed.

It worked for me once but when I tried to change feed it stop working.

But I was able to get one feed to work and it is still working. So when i make a blog post it goes right to ping.fm.

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