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WordPress Update Links Solved

Since the release of 1.5, WordPress has included an “update-links” program that you can call periodically to check the latest updated time of the links in your link roll. This program queries Pingomatic, which returns a list links and update times.

However, if the links in your database are of the format “http://www.timeistight.com,” the Pingomatic API won’t recognize them, even if the site pings Pingomatic religously; the Pingomatic API responds only to links without the “www,” e.g., “http://timeistight.com”.

I first caught this in the forums, and immediately went to my Links Manager. It worked! (Thunderous applause: Time Is Tight)

This solves the following posts: Update links, Not all blogs updating?

 

8 Comments

Intresting

Posted by Anthony on 31 March 2005 @ 8am

w00t. Now I’m on your blogroll ;)

Now all I have to do is sit and wait for the DNS settings for my blog to update as I changed hosts….

Posted by Matt on 31 March 2005 @ 10am

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Just crashed into this post about fixing the known link update problem in WP 1.5. I still h [...]

Posted by centripetalforces dot com » WP Links fix on 2 April 2005 @ 4am

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Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive: Bryan fixes his problem with updating links. Owen has a few pointers on h [...]

Posted by MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 4/4/05 on 4 April 2005 @ 12am

Oh.
My.
God.
wtf, I didn’t know about update-links ??!1 And since I had upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5 it now works, blogroll links updated \o/
But, do you still have to call update-links manually ?

Posted by Ozh on 4 April 2005 @ 6am

Ozh: Yes. Setup a cron job to do that once every hour.

Posted by Bryan on 4 April 2005 @ 7am

[...] This all sounds nifty, but I haven’t had any luck getting that to work. I tried the no-www fix [...]

Posted by Hand Coding » Blog Archive » Adding Link Manager Tags to Your WordPress Templates on 4 April 2005 @ 8pm

[...] I’ve been conducting an experiment. After reading a bunch of posts, both at WordPress.org and other blogs, I’m starting to get a clearer picture of how the update-links.php file is working with Ping-O-matic. It appears that this post at All Narfed Up is correct. Blogs hosted at blogspot are updating, because of their subdomain.blogspot.com addresses. Sites that have the URL of their blog listed as http://www.havecoffeewillwrite.com that are pinging ping-o-matic are SOL. [...]

Posted by Brewed Fresh Daily » Updating the NEO Blogroll on 30 March 2006 @ 4am

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