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vBPinger - Ping on new threads, articles, blogs · **Released**: 07-09-2010

I wrote this for my board and thought others would benefit from it.

This mod will cause vbulletin to ping a list of sites in the ACP that you add to the list. I have it set to pingomatic by default. But you can add others to the list as well. Note that I have just used it with pingomatic.

You can also disallow certain forums from being pings by listing them in the ignore forum box.

You can also choose to only ping on certain items. So you can turn on and off pinging on articles, blogs, or threads.

There is a debug option. It does not work in IE since IE doesn't like the xml that is used. It works in Firefox.

In addition, you can set your user agent to pass to the ping sites.

The hooks used are:

blog_post_updateentry_new
vbcms_article_save_end
newthread_post_complete

Instructions are to

Download the zip file
Unzip the zip file
Import the product file product-bvs03_vbpinger.xml through your ACP.
Then goto the settings page and set them up to ignore your private forums and disallow any pinging that you do not want to have occur. As well as set the user agent to another value if you want.

LbR · #2 07-11-2010, 08:05 PM

Like Ping sites Pings Blog its Pings threads to different sites like Technorati etc?

Alfa1 · #3 07-11-2010, 08:33 PM

It pings sites? Could you please explain what this does and why this modification can be useful?
Screenshots could help.

SuperTaz · #4 07-11-2010, 10:10 PM

I agree. Screenshots or a demo would be nice to see how this works on a live or demo site.

Kolbi · #5 07-12-2010, 06:42 AM

vBSEO also pings some sites:

Quote:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

Lairston · #6 07-12-2010, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LbR

Like Ping sites Pings Blog its Pings threads to different sites like Technorati etc?

Yes it can if you list technorati in the ping list on the vBPinger acp page.

Lairston · #7 07-12-2010, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alfa1

It pings sites? Could you please explain what this does and why this modification can be useful?
Screenshots could help.

It sends a ping to sites you list on the ACP page. It adds what Wordpress comes with default. It pings pingomatic. But you can add more sites

Pingomatic then will alert some other sites that your site has been updated. And hopefully it will lead to more people visiting the site.

Since its all backend there are no screenshots to take.

twhiting9275 · #8 07-12-2010, 05:54 PM

Excellent idea, thank you

mgcom · #9 07-12-2010, 09:24 PM

installed - thanks

whats?

Quote:

Is in debug
This will add debug info to the page if you answer yes

Do i need to register on these ping sites for this to work ? and does anyone have a list of sites i can use

thanks again

Brandon Sheley · #10 07-12-2010, 09:36 PM

nice mod, this is one of the things I like vbseo for, good to know it can be done for free

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