This is the last post in the series we’ve been doing about WordPress and pinging blog aggregation services. I’ve been scouting around really desperately testing various pieces of kit to be able to prove, mainly to myself, that my clients blogs are pinging effectively - this has been ok on servers we run but on other servers it has proven to be a bit of a nightmare. And then I found the holy grail of WordPress ping plugins to do the job for me. Something that would show me what pings were working and what wasn’t.

Up Smart Update Pinger Plugin for WordPress

The name’s a bit of a mouthful but this plugin is way cool. It replacesthe default ping stuff - due to some of the spamming that your default ping module could be doing in WordPress. By default WordPress pings everytime you update your blog - that includes edits etc - which to me could mean that I was pinging (with the same article) four five times in close sucession. The Up Smart Update Pinger only pings when you update.

But this is not the whole story. It also provides the ability to run a diagnostic test when you post that shows you where the error were in your pings. I’ve grabbed a quick screen shot of this from this site.

This is a great move forward for all bloggers. You can install it, activate it, write a post and see if the pings have worked. You can download this little darling of a ping checking plugin.