Mercurythread » plugins http://www.mercurythread.co.uk The personal website of Michael Briggs : Professional SEO and Internet Geek Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:31:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to Check that Your WordPress Blog is Pinging http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/how-to-check-that-your-wordpress-blog-is-pinging/2008/04/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/how-to-check-that-your-wordpress-blog-is-pinging/2008/04/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:23:48 +0000 Michael http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/how-to-check-that-your-wordpress-blog-is-pinging/2008/04/02/ 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.
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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.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/how-to-check-that-your-wordpress-blog-is-pinging/2008/04/feed/ 1 SezWho Plugin for WordPress http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sezwho-plugin-for-wordpress/2008/03/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sezwho-plugin-for-wordpress/2008/03/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:43:13 +0000 Michael http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sezwho-plugin-for-wordpress/2008/03/28/ As I’m still getting to grips with which WordPress Plugins I’m putting them in -> testing them -> deciding whether to keep them or not. The one that I’m loving at the moment is the SezWho Plugin. I found it over at Andy Beards blog on his comments and decided to use/pinch the idea.

What does the SezWho Plugin do?

The SezWho plugin for WordPress blogs allows you to rate each comment were they useful or were they not. The better commenters get a better rating over time. It also allows you as blog readers/contributors to rate the comments too. This should help me to get a grip on what kind of content everyone is actually interested in rather than just blogging about stuff that no one really cares about.

Download the SezWho Plugin

Download the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Archive.

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