Hi, Any idea why 7 of my categories at http://www.weight-loss-discovery.com disappeared overnight - many pages that I had posted vanished. I checked in WP and the category names are there, but 0 posts beside them. I posted many pages yesterday night, but somehow they were deleted. I know that I had to wait about 2 minutes per page post, probably because I have a long list of ping sites installed in WP that it is supposed to post to ... perhaps that is a bad idea. What Ping sites are worth it to install in WP ? I have the following in Options > Writing > Update Services box http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping.php http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://bblog.com/ping.php http://bitacoras.net/ping http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogupdate.org/ping/ http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt http://ping.amagle.com/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.blogg.de/ http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/ http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.myblog.jp http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://ping.weblogs.se/ http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/ http://pingqueue.com/rpc/ http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/ http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2 http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.britblog.com/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.newsgator.com/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://rpc.wpkeys.com/ http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.blogoole.com/ping/ http://www.blogoon.net/ping/ http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1 http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2 http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/ http://www.imblogs.net/ping/ http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/ http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2 http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/ http://xmlrpc.blogg.de http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php Thank you.
Some thoughts about your missing pages... It was late, you were tired, and they're on your other blog Your webhost had a problem and had to roll back to a backed up version of your site As for the pings, that's an impressive list (you've manually verified them all I hope, some let you ping but do nothing if you haven't registered) and it will cause a significant delay. Further problems will be caused when any one of those sites is down or abandoned. My recommendation then is to have a single ping on your own server that then triggers all of those to be pinged. Your best bet would be to have each in a database table with a status of 0. A cron job could then run every hour and ping any entry with 0. On completion it sets the flag to 1. When you post your script would change them all back to 0
Sigh - people have the wrong idea about pinging. Eg you have BlogFlux and Pingomatic. All we are going to do is re-ping the sites you have already pinged. Either choose a mass pinger (like Blog Flux) or ping individually.
Thanks for the information. I deleted all of them except http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Is that enough or I'm guessing I should use the service you recommended ? Thanks.
Okay - just to be clear, your pinging does *not* affect your WP itself. There are a dozen reasons of what could have been happened - you could have been exploited, you could have been hacked, your host could have suffered a DB loss, etc etc. In regards to pinging - as I own BlogFlux.com my opinion is slanted. But BlogFluxcom, Pingomatic.com, or Pingoat.com should all server you just fine.