Open up
/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
.Find the line that says
add_option('ping_sites', 'http://rpc.pingomatic.com/');
Change that line so that it reads
add_option('ping_sites', "http://rpc.pingomatic.com/\nhttp://rpc.NEWPINGSITE.TLD");
You can add multiple sites as long as you separate each URL with a
\n
.Save and upload the file.
Any future blogs will be created with the new ping sites set in Site Options.
You can update existing sites either via MySQL or by using the Site Admin panel.
We have added a few extra sites to the list of ping services that will be notified when a new post is made.
A ping is an example of a push mechanism. Instead of blog aggregation services having to look at all the blogs, they are listed to see which ones have new content. The blogs themselves inform the aggregators that they have been updated by sending them a ping.
Ping-o-Matic is a service that receives pings and then passes them on to multiple servers. This reduces the...