Easily Update Social Networks with the PingPressFM WordPress Plugin

This guest post was written by Josh Budde, who maintains a blog about his interests, including podcasting, being a junior developer, and web guru. If you have webmaster or WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for Hack WordPress, please contact us.

Ping.Fm is a cool service that allows you to essentially ping several different services at the same time. PingPressFM is a plugin that allows you to send a ping to Ping.Fm when you make a new blog post on your Wordpress blog.

I use this plugin on my blog and I love using it because when I go to make the post, I don’t have to worry about having to either going to every website like Twitter, Jaiku or Pownce to make a post telling followers that you have a new blog post or even going to Ping.Fm, it automatically pings the Ping.Fm website and then posts to the services that are setup in Ping.Fm. The only downside to this is if you schedule a blog post, it will not ping those services… I have suggested to the owner of the plugin to make it still Ping when a scheduled post goes out.

Ping.Fm automatically updates your status message for Facebook, Jaiku, LinkedIn and Pownce; making a blog post for you on Bebo, Blogger, Hi5, LiveJournal and MySpace and along with blogging, Ping.Fm posts a Micro-Blog post on MySpace and Twitter. By using this plugin for your selfhosted wordpress blog, it will also update these services.