MaxBlogPress Ping optimizer

The WordPress built in Blog Pinging system works but is extremely basic and does not really give you any options as to how you would like it to function nor does it provide you with anyway of knowning whether your pings are actually successful! This plugin from the guys at MaxBlogPress expands the wordpress functionality in regards to pinging substantially giving you control.

The mayor improvements over the stranded pinging in WordPress are:

• It makes sure that an article is only pinged when it is first published and not after an edit as WordPress does by default. This avoids you possibly getting banned by any of the ping services for spam (you can hardly say you’ve got new content when you’ve just changed a misspelling or 2 )

• It gives you more control over when your blog pings, so for instance you can tell your blog to ping when ever you like even if you aren’t posting new content or you can have the blog only ping every so many posts just encase you were running a very large blog.

• It Provides you with a color coded log (green for successful and red for failed) that shows when and what your blog pinged, which services worked and which did not and what type of ping they were.

I always install this plugin on every blog I start. Especially because of its log which allows me to see at a glance whether or not my pings are successful. As with all free MaxBlogPress plugins you do have to register it with them and subscribe to their newsletter, however if you do not like their emails you can always unsubscribe at anytime as they use Aweber.

MaxBlogPress Ping optimizer

This plugin is on my list of my favorite WordPress Blog Plugins.

PS: If you’re interested in blog pinging, you’ll almost definitely be interested in my full working list of Blog Ping Services.