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A brief guide to ping PPS

Here come the PPS 1.5 Beta. Starting today, there are close to 20 testers would start to ping over PPS main page with their blogging entries. Watch out for PPS and you could easily keep posted of these Malaysian bloggers.

PPS is using TrackBack feature provided by Movable Type. Thus, for fellow testers, there’re basically two ways for you to ping PPS (which means, send a brief info for PPS to list your blog entry’s URL/extract):

1. If you didn’t use MT, nor your blogging system has the ping/trackback feature, you have to use a public pinger: Registered as a member, and then go to PPS’s public ping form. Just fill in the form and submit, you’re done. The detailed instruction has been given in Aiz’s email.
2. For MT user, a simple guide is illustrated below.

A simple guide for MT users to ping PPS.

1. First at all, you have to know what URL to ping. Aiz has published the trackback URL in PPS Beta mailing list. Noted down the URL. It’s important.
2. Logon to Movable Type
3. You could either manually ping PPS or configure your MT to automatically ping PPS once you post a new entry.
4. For manually ping, click “New Entry”, after you’ve done your writing, paste the trackback URL at the box labeled “URLs to Ping”. Click “Save”, then MT would send a trackback ping to the URL.

   

5. To automate the ping process, click “Categories”.
6. For the category you would like to automate the ping, edit the category attributes.

   

7. Paste the trackback URL to box labeled “TrackBack URLs to ping”, which fall under Trackback Setting->Outgoing Pings. If you would like all your post auto-send a ping to PPS, you have to configure this setting on all your categories. (Note: In other word, if you don’t have categories at all, you can’t automate this ping process)

   

8. Once you configure the categories attributes, that’s it, leave it there and MT would do the ping for you. If you would like to be in control which post to ping, choose the manual way and be remember to paste the trackback URL when you’re going to save a new entry.

That’s it. Enjoy.