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Hello there! You may be wondering why you’re reading this, instead of looking at Plugin settings. Well, the reason that you’re not looking at Plugin settings is because there aren’t any Plugin settings anymore. In fact, this Plugin doesn’t have any functionality anymore. Why? Because this Plugin’s functionality is no longer needed. In fact, this Plugin’s functionality may never have been needed in the first place. But regardless of that, it certainly isn’t needed now. How Pings Work in WordPress Let me explain why, starting with a walkthrough of how pings work in WordPress, courtesy of @Otto42: When a post gets created, updated, inserted, modified, etc., eventually, it always goes through wp_insert_post(). wp_insert_post() calls wp_transition_post_status(). wp_transition_post_status() does various actions, but importantly it does this: do_action(“{$new_status}_{$post->post_type}”, $post->ID, $post); So the action of new-status and new-post-type is called. In this case, we’re interested in the publish status on the post post-type, so publish_post is the action hook. In wp-includes/default-filters.php, we have this: ** add_action( ‘publish_post’, ‘_publish_post_hook’, 5, 1 ); ** So that causes publish_post to call _publish_post_hook(). _publish_post_hook(), among other things, adds the ‘_pingme’ post meta to the post, and schedules the do_pings action for a one-time cron call, which will happen on the next page load (because it’s hooked to time() for the schedule). Again in wp-includes/default-filters.php, we have this: **...
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