Guide To Ping PPS From WordPress
Filed in: Tips n Tricks, WordPress — May 11th, 2004
As an active pinger of Project Petaling Street(PPS) and WordPress(WP) user, here I write a brief guide to ping PPS, both manual and auto ways. 
Requirements:
- A weblog powered by WordPress(here I use version 1.0.2)
- PPS membership (free register)
- Basic HTML editing and file upload/download skill(for auto ping)
Preparation
You need to have PPS Ping URLs. Goto member page(public pinger) of PPS, there is intruction to get PPS Ping URLs under “Using Personal-Server-Installed Blogging Tools: Begin Instructions” part.
Note: PPS Ping URLs are only for PPS members, therefore, I cannot reveal them here.
Manual Ping PPS
Here is simple and brainless way to ping PPS manually…
- When you write a post in WP, there is a “Trackback an URL” text field under the post area.
- To ping PPS, just copy and paste the PPS Ping URL of the category you want to ping into the text field.
So, it look looks something like this:
- After that just publish the post as usual by clicking the “Publish” button, and WP will ping PPS. Done!
Auto Ping PPS
Here is tip to save the trouble of copy and paste the ping URL everytime you make a post.
- Download “
edit-form.php” from your WP installation directory. The file is inside/wp-admin/directory. - Open and edit “
edit-form.php“. - Search for “
trackback_url” and you will see a line like the following:
<input type="text" name="trackback_url" style="width: 360px" id="trackback" tabindex="7" value="" /> - Replace it with:
<input type="text" name="trackback_url" style="width: 360px" id="trackback" tabindex="7" value="PUT_PPS_PING_URL_HERE" /> - Save the file after editing. Upload the edited “
edit-form.php” back to your WP installation’s/wp-admin/directory, and replace the old file. - Done! Next time when you start a new post, the PPS URL will sit in the trackback field automatically. Like this:
If you do not wish to ping PPS for particular post, just delete the URL from the text field.
Thought:
Hope this guide helps PPS members who are using WordPress.
For MovableType user, here is brief guide to ping PPS by YowKee.
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May 11th, 2004 at 1:32 pm
Excellent. I also use WordPress (much better than MT IMHO).
May 11th, 2004 at 1:38 pm
nice one LcF. need to change mine oso since they deleted other categories. thanx.
May 11th, 2004 at 1:41 pm
[...] spective. And now, thanks to LCF, I can pingback (update PPS whenever I post a new entry) automatically.
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August 10th, 2004 at 10:19 pm
I am using WordPress 1.2 Mingus… i followed the steps you mentioned, but it seem doesn’t work.. and it didn’t ping to PPS… any idea why?
August 11th, 2004 at 11:08 am
kiawin: even when enter the url manually in the Trackback field?
August 11th, 2004 at 4:48 pm
yup… no matter manually or i set the value… weird
August 12th, 2004 at 12:16 am
that’s weird, indeed.
Have you try to ping other sites, other than PPS?
August 12th, 2004 at 11:03 am
err.. nope..
August 13th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
it is your wordpress installation problem then
August 30th, 2004 at 9:34 pm
Tech Nite
Yeah ! done a few tech thing tonite …
firstly thx to LCF again for the detail post about how to ping pps, now my blog will auto ping to pps, if you ask me why i wan to ping pps, i think its because of lonely ?
other then this finally my new d lin…
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:13 am
Hi, I noticed this post is abit old, but I’m wondering if I’m using WP 1.5, does the method you described above the same as adding the URL to Options->Writing->Updating Services section?
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:40 am
No, the “Updating Services” section does not work for PPS. You need to ping PPS using Trackback as described in the post.
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:43 am
Great, thanks mate!
April 22nd, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Auto Ping PPS from Wordpress 1.5
Since the site is upgraded to Wordpress 1.5 and the code changed alot, here is the updated guide to auto ping Project Petaling Street (PPS)….
July 19th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
Pinnging PPS again
After a long break, I have decided to Ping Project Petaling Street again. I used to do it manually but then it got tiring. Now with Wordpress, it’s automatic.
I may have missed the PPS Bash but here I am again PPS, ping ping ping!
The instruct…
July 19th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the tip. Great site!
July 19th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
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August 5th, 2005 at 9:46 am
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November 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Thanks mate! More reason to love petaling street