Pingchecker
Scans post for links, checks if they are pingeable and sends pingbacks with results returned, improves chances of successful pings!
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·10 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, Pingchecker is a WordPress ping plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: No Self Ping.
0/5Rating
10active installs
3.9K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Pingchecker is a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to scan your post’s content for
links, check the pingability of those resources you’ve linked to, and manually ping those
pages. This improves upon the inbuilt fuctionality of WordPress by allowing you to receive
the results of your attempted pings whereas WordPress doesn’t. (With WordPress your ping
either appears in the trackback list or it doesn’t, with no explanation or error codes.)
Also included is a workaround for a bug in the WordPress XML RPC server that prevents many
of your pingbacks from succeeding without you even knowing about it! When you ping another
blogs server, it will check the page you linked, BUT because of this bug, sometimes it can’t
find the link at all. This workaround adds a…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.0
- Added the ability to check for pingback approvals.
Contributors
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