[wp-testers] Posts still stalling when I hit publish...

[Will Garcia]

Thanks for clearing that up. I opted to just remove everything and leave
pingomatic there.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:43 PM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> The ping services are not exactly the problem that causes the long
> publishing pauses.
>
> The pings are supposed to be sent by the WP Cron system, However, in order
> to kick off the cron, a HTTP request needs to be made to your WP install, by
> WP itself, If for some reason, The HTTP connection blocks (ie. it waits for
> the cron to return the entire document) then you'll be sitting on the
> publishing screen waiting for it to ping all the sites..
>
> The way its supposed to work, Is that the cron will kick off, and that WP
> will discard the connection straight away and finish loading, Meanwhile, in
> the background, the WP Cron request has gone ahead and pinged all the sites
> for you without slowing your page load down (Thats a 'non-blocking' request)
>
> So while the pinging shows the problem, Its not the actual cause of the
> problem, Allthough, cleaning out that ping srvices list would be a good idea
> eitherway IMO.. Are they even needed these days?
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:03:50 +1100, Steve <stevish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I just tried adding a completely bogus url to my ping list, and it didn't
>> really slow down my posting. It's possible that real sites with a slow
>> response time could slow it down...
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Matt <speedboxer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Will Garcia <w at will.ph> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Only solution I found is to delete everything (except
>>> > http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) in the Update Services section of the
>>> Writing
>>> > Settings page.
>>>
>>>
>>> What other services are you pinging? Have you checked that all of them
>>> still
>>> exist and have the correct URL?
>>>
>>>
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