Easy Ping Plugin

Easy Ping is a plugin that adds ping to search engines support to Joomla 1.5.

It can ping popular search engines like google, yahoo, msn live, technorati, and more.

In addition it autocreates a sitemap.xml file with last 100 contents.

Also, if you use to copy images with copy&paste from another sites, it can handle them and download automatically. This helps in the way that if the other image is removed, your site continues working well.

2009-11-20 Version 1.2
* Support for a different sitemap to ping. You can write one sitemap url relative to your site and easyping will ping that sitemap instead of the default (generated) sitemap
* Problems with images with strange characters like spaces and others are not problem anymore. Easyping converts the filenames to a md5 hash of the original filename.

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byEvilEd on November 17, 2009
It's hard to tell that it's working although I'd like it to report something when it runs
Owner's reply

If you want to test that it is working, is very easy. Only check the apache log files for your domain, just after you publish a new content, and you will see that google bot access almost immediatly your sitemap or the new link.

Hi, thank you for excellent plugin :) I have a little question for you Mario.Can I use the ping esay if using (joomla)joomap sitemap for my site and how to ping google for my site if you use the sitemap joomap?(I know how to use the path to ping Google but how the plugin instead of the path) aThanks again.
PS sorry for poor English :)
Owner's reply

Right now it can't do that. But it is a planned feature, that you can add a different link for the sitemap. Please check the support forum :)

bygr8sale on September 29, 2009
Thank you! In the past I wondered why there was no plugin like this, because wordpress has one.
Owner's reply

Me too :) that's the reason I made this. I love this feature on WP, and also love Joomla! so, this feature is a must.

bymarsm on August 16, 2009
Well, it appears to work, and installed OK... I do have a question though. Under Ping Services should I not add more URLs, or are three default ones pinging the hundred or so sites as advertised?
Owner's reply

Hi! If you know more ping services, you should add more to it. I only know that ping services, that's the reason I only added them. The pingomatic service says that the ping lot more services, but I don't know for sure, so I added also google :)

Thank's for the coolest PLugin..
It was fetching remote images for new articles was very good and making them local..was Excellent
But small Suggestion... It would be greate if it could also fetch images for old articles..
( like running it once manually..so all the old images become local images.)
here is the link i have tested
Owner's reply

It's good idea, let me check how is the best way to add support for this :)