Sean Deasy

For hosting this site and many others I work with CPanel (hosting control panel). I needed to find out how to set up a Cron Job. A Cron Job is nothing more than a job that runs on a schedule. So you could call a script at a specified time every week or send an email report at the same time every day automatically.

I googled for it and I came across this little show video tutorial of how to set up a cronjob using cpanel

In fact after hunting around a bit I found many more cpanel video tutorials on the same site.

For the past few months now I have been having issues when posting to my WordPress blogs. I type in the post and click Publish and after what seems like forever a blank post.php page appears. The post does get submitted but a blank page is shown. After alot of debugging I have solved the issue.

If you have this issue with the blank post.php page when posting then the issue is most likely some one of the sites in your ping list is timing out.

Alot of people say that by simply removing http://rpc.pingomatic.com from the list it should work but this did not work for me. I had to go through alot of the ping list to eliminate which ones were causing issues.

Here is my current ping list and with this ping list I do not have the blank post.php issue. Hope this helps someone else.

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://www.irishblogs.ie/xmlrpc.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://planet.journals.ie/xml-rpc.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

Every time I wrote a WordPress post and published it the page would time out.  The post would be posted but the page time out was a bit worrying.  After a bit of googling, the issue seems to be that I was using an older version of the No Ping Wait plugin.  I thought that the upgrade to the latest version would solve the problem but it failed to help.  In the end I have disabled the No Ping Wait wordpress plugin and the timeout issue has disappeared.