Sean Deasy

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. 

I have a few of my blogs running on WordPress 1.4 with the WP Cron and WP Database Backup plugins working perfectly, I would get an automated email everyday with a backup of each of my blog’s databases.  Thanks GMail for all the space

Well, I recently upgraded my blogs to WordPress 2.0.4 and I stopped getting the automated emails.  The WP Database Backup plugin comes pre-installed with version 2.0.4 of WordPress and my WP Cron plugin was left untouched.  I checked the versions of my old WP Database Backup plugin against the new version and they both were 1.7, so I initially thought that the WP Cron plugin was the issue.

I eventually debugged it down to the fact that the two WP Database Backup plugins (old and new) were different even though they both stated version 1.7.   So I overwrote the newer WP Database Backup plugin with my old backup copy of the WP Database Backup plugin and the emails started to arrive again with the blog backups attached.

The versions that work for me with WordPress 2.0.4 are:

WP Cron

WP Database Backup

So I had to use the older version of the WP Database Backup plugin (not the version shipped with WP 2.0.4).  Disappointing that two different versions of the WP Database Backup plugin were both labelled version 1.7.