Plone ping tool, Plone product developed by Quintagroup

Plone Ping Tool (quintagroup.pingtool) is a simple tool to enable pinging of external feed aggregators.

You no longer need to go to external feed aggregators like Technorati and inform them that your site has new content. Plone PingTool will do it instead of you, thus saving your time.

Usage

go to the Add-on Product Configuration through Site Setup and select PingTool
Set up and change the parameters of sites-RRS aggregators for pinging
go to Zope Management Interface (add /manage to site URL)
click Properties tab
add a new property (name - canonical_url, type - string, value - www.yoursite)
return to your blog to see a new tab appear
click it to view the following page:
mark with a tip Enable Ping
choose the sites you would like to get pinged
click Save
ping and wait for the results of pinging

Requirements

qRSS2Syndication - to enable RSS2 feeds
XMLRPCMethod

Supported Plone versions

Plone 2.1, 2.5 - releases up to 0.3.1
Plone 3 - starting from release 1.1.3

Note

Ping Tool up to version including 0.3.1 was used with Plone Blog.
Starting from 1.1.3 version Ping Tool is a standalone product, that may be used with Quills or any other Blog tool for Plone.

Author

Volodymyr Cherepanyak
Andriy Mylenkyi
Vitaliy Stepanov